FRANZ Ferdinand drummer Paul Thomson flew into Glasgow Airport just in time for The Scottish Album of The Year Awards – but he admitted he was there by mistake.
Long-haired muso Paul picked up the band’s shortlisted award for album Always Ascending.
I caught him standing outside the trendy gender-neutral toilets at Paisley’s Town Hall. He said: “We’re actually officially on tour.
“We just played in Holland in a place called Haarlem at a beach resort called Woodstock 69. We have a group calendar and somebody had put the dates wrongly in the calendar and I thought we had two days off, so I thought I’d come just home but it turns out I’ve got a gig tomorrow in Milan. Fortuitously this is happening so I turned up to represent.”
Paul also revealed he and the band never set out for fame or dosh when they started their band. He told me: “We just did it for fun and that’s what your motivation should be. You see a lot of great places but it just doesn’t compare to being here.
“As soon as I fly into Glasgow I just think thank God.”
Hardeep is our love
Brilliant news that our very own Hardeep Singh Kohli did so well on Big Brother.
He’s an intelligent guy who is always great to chat to – and he’s a fab cook. Hardeep, of course is now home in Scotland, and remains as down to earth as ever.
Instead of posing in flash restaurants and negotiating big endorsement deals like some of his reality peers, he could be found immediately in one of his ‘offices’ in Dennistoun.
Sweet success
YOUNG Fathers bandmember Alloysious Massaquoi says the band are now chilling after being awarded Scottish Album of The Year for their third studio offering Cocoa Sugar.
A suited and booted Alloysious, who was posing with his posse outside Paisley town hall, when they asked if I would take some pics for Instagram, told me he’d recently been in New York for a catch up with friends after touring with Massive Attack.
He revealed he had a good laugh with the dance legends behind the scenes.
He said: “We got Daddy G and Rob (Del Naja) to try out the Dele Alli challenge (where you put your hand over your eye in an upside down OK sign like The Spurs strikers goal celebration) and it was hilarious. They were steaming.”
If you’ve not tried it yet you’ve missed the craze, but it’s always good for a laugh.
Alloysious told me he always finds it hard getting back to normality after big tours.
He said: “For me it’s always about finding balance and the kind of razzmatazz stuff I always take with a pinch of salt.
“The guys and I, we are local lads, so spending time with family and friends and regulating friendships is important.
“A lot of the time I come back everybody is working and the reality is a lot of the time I just go to the cinema by myself. Or I got to my mum’s house.”
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