["I can't stand it" by Blossoms]
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How is everyone?
Do we speak to you or the camera?
Is there anything I should be worried about?
Do you know what, I got a really bad rash from that costume.
-Did you? -Chuckles.
Might be a bit medieval if I do my full, full name.
Joseph John Donovan.
Charles Anthony Salt.
Joe for short.
I'm Myles and I play keyboard.
Is that how you say it?
I'm Josh Dewhurst.
Tom Ogden.
My name's Myles and I play the keyboards in Blossoms.
-Drummer. -Bass guitar, back end vocals.
And I play the lead guitar in Blossoms.
I'm gonna say it, never said it before. Singer-songwriter in Blossoms.
-[clapperboard snaps] -Cut.
[soft piano music]
Me and Joe became friends on a school trip to Alton Towers.
Not very rock and roll, but we got to go on the trip for having 100% attendance.
That's how it all started.
Weirdly enough, I knew everyone before
we was in the band. I knew Tom from school.
What are your names, where are you from?
Just from Stockport, round there.
-Name. -What are your names?
Oh, Joe.
-Diva. -Tom.
["Nobody Guy" by The Mastersound]
Basically, I was in a band with Joe...
and we all kind of new each other from knocking around Stockport.
Tom was in another band called Save The Mastersound.
♪ See there's a nobody guy who never liked to cry ♪
♪ Sings himself to sleep at night ♪
♪ Saying Lord tell me why ♪
Then Tom put Josh's old band on a bill with him once.
We used to do Arctic Monkeys covers and Strokes covers and stuff like that.
They did this Arctic Monkeys cover
and he absolutely nailed the sounds of it.
So we were like, "We need to get Josh in."
I got a Facebook message from Joe.
I think I said something dead cringey like,
we should jam the 12 bar blues sometime.
Just makes you feel sick saying it.
Still to this day, Blossoms is obviously 12 bar blues.
I was thinking, "Christ,
this is quite a big opportunity now." Especially when you're a kid
and you've got these older guys who you look up to.
And they're saying, "Come and hang out with us and make some music."
We started jamming in the scaffolding yard.
Charlie had this room where we could just leave the gear,
it was free and we could just go to, like, whatever time we wanted.
It was mint. So I was like, maybe we can do something here.
Got offered a gig at Night and Day.
I think we got 36 people in.
And at that time, even if you didn't get paid, if you got more than 30 people in,
you got one pound per person who came in. So we got 36 quid.
But Charlie parked the van outside Night and Day
and got a 35 pound ticket fine.
So started off with a quid profit, which is good.
The August of that year, Myles joined.
I moved into a flat above a curry house in Stockport.
And we used to have loads of parties there.
Which I was excluded from because
I don't do fun.
[upbeat music]
MYLES' OLD FLAT
Tom and Joe came to one of the parties once.
They were looking for a keyboard player.
Myles had overheard Tom saying, "Yeah, we're looking out,
we're looking for some keyboard parts
to pad out the band's sound."
And he was like, "I can play keys."
And he held up his hand with a cast on it 'cause he broke his wrist.
-I'll play the keys. -I can play the keyboards.
-Couldn't play keyboards. -After running away from police
from pissing up a wall in Manchester.
In that kind of moment where they were like,
"We're looking for a keyboard player." I just jumped straight on it.
I think the first song that we all kind of contributed to,
which we still play now, is "Blow."
And I started playing this keyboard part and basically ripped off The Doors.
I remember after they were like, "That's fucking mint.
That's what we need." And I was like, "Yeah, mint."
And I peaked there.
He learnt the tunes in an afternoon with Tom.
But I think then we concreted the Blossom sound
with Myles as the fifth member, do you know what I mean?
Literally from there, we knew that it was a lot different.
Automatically, I don't know, it was weird, something just clicked.
Ladies and gentlemen, Blossoms.
[audience cheering]
I think we always had our own identity
from a really early point.
Because we'd all been in other bands before Blossoms,
we knew we wanted to do things differently.
"Right, we're going to do our own gigs.
We're going to put it up and create a bit of mystery around the band."
All wore the same thing and made the videos.
♪ Your mystic lips tell me this ♪
♪ Throw me another lead ♪
♪ Cause I can't tell the underspell in your eyes ♪
♪ So come and show me what you want ♪
[Tom] We did do a lot of gigs to no one.
It never felt disheartening in Blossoms,
it just spurned us on to want to do more.
[narrator] And that's exactly what they did.
Is anyone here from Stockport?
[audience cheering]
[narrator] Taking their name from a local pub,
the lads embarked on a relentless touring schedule.
["At Most A Kiss" by Blossoms]
Blossoms went from playing to a few family and friends...
to topping the U.K. charts with their self-titled debut album.
["Charlemagne" by Blossoms]
♪ ...so if you go I will know ♪
From there, their career went from strength to strength,
supporting their boyhood heroes
and playing on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
They created their own brand of synth guitar pop.
Non-stop writing combined with their infectious personalities, earned them fans
all over the world.
From Woods Moor to Washington,
Stepping Hill to Shanghai,
they've put their beloved hometown on the map.
["The Keeper" by Blossoms]
Now with over 100 million plays on Spotify
and two chart-topping albums,
Blossoms are coming back to Stockport
for their biggest gig yet.
♪ Let's spend this life as one ♪
All with the aim of giving something back
to the town they adore.
[audience cheering]
["At Most A Kiss" by Blossoms]
♪ I wrote to fear ♪
♪ It disappeared ♪
♪ At most a kiss this time ♪
♪ I'll be your boy ♪
♪ I'll pocket the earth ♪
♪ Into the abyss we'll climb ♪
♪ At most a kiss this time ♪
♪ Is it on ♪
♪ Someone said that you'd left town ♪
♪ But I've been holding on too long ♪
♪ Someone said that boy she's gone ♪
♪ If it's on then I'm yours ♪
♪ So let me know ♪
♪ She wedded her man ♪
♪ Let's elope to Japan ♪
♪ Between the rosemary wilds we will hide ♪
♪ I thought that I was your boy ♪
♪ The earth's on hold ♪
♪ I'll pocket a stone I will find ♪
♪ At most a kiss this time ♪
♪ Is it on ♪
♪ Someone said that you'd left town ♪
♪ But I've been holding on too long ♪
♪ Someone said that boy, she's gone ♪
♪ If it's on then I'm yours ♪
♪ So let me know ♪
♪ I was thinking you were always mine ♪
♪ We watched the skies fall down ♪
♪ We'll carry on when worlds divide ♪
♪ This heart it beats but makes no sound ♪
♪ Is it on ♪
♪ Someone said that you left town ♪
♪ But I've been holding on too long ♪
♪ Someone said that boy, she's gone ♪
♪ If it's on then I'm yours ♪
♪ So let me know ♪
♪ At most a kiss ♪
[audience cheering]
[Myles] Where are we today?
In XS Manchester for the new breakfast show.
Very nice.
[Tom] They want some local lads.
Nice building.
Not allowed up here, mate.
Band only.
It's a fucking massive tele that, isn't it? Jesus Christ.
Right, Blossoms are here.
I'm very excited because, first week
on the brand new breakfast show in XS Manchester
and you boys are here, which I'm buzzing about.
-Nice one. -[Myles] Yeah, good morning.
You know what I want to talk about
first and foremost, the biggest thing going on
for you guys at the minute, it's massive,
do you know what I'm going to say?
Dressing up as the Spice Girls, what was going on?
-Well, five become one. -[DJ laughing]
My girlfriend turned 30,
so we had a big fancy dress party at her house.
My sister's 30th.
Tom's going out with my sister,
so it's Tom's girlfriend, which I really prefer.
[Myles] So we're putting a gazebo up.
[Josh] Charles has a history with construction.
I'm shit.
Get all the pieces and bars out,
-and set them in sections. -On here.
[cameraman] Taking charge, Charles?
Yeah.
These fingers are insured for millions, you know.
Don't want to break anything.
Right, so we need eight number twos.
Eight number twos.
How many musicians does it take to put a gazebo up?
Four musicians, a sibling and two dogs.
[Tom] Couples sometimes go as fancy dress together, so we were like,
why don't we go one step further.
It was originally The Beatles though.
Yeah. We said we would do The Beatles.
-But it was only four. -[DJ] Yeah.
This one's a bit troublesome.
You might need to sand it with a stone.
File it down with a bit of a--
-Like that. -It needs further filing.
I need a more abrasive piece. What's this knocking off it?
Ray Mears says, when building a gazebo, in the wild,
that you've got to improvise and use what you have around you.
[scraping]
Next we see Joe make a fire with his bare hands.
And then we cook the dog.
-[Myles] Whoa. -[Josh] I could never do that.
Oh, look, he's looking up now. Sorry, George, we'd never cook you, mate.
The instruction's would've said, put the canopy on.
That's what I thought.
[Joe] Well, dude. Someone said you shouldn't be here.
[yelling and laughing]
[Tom] That looks very tight.
-Gazebo. -I don't have people who complete.
-I hate fancy dress, not going to lie. -[DJ] Yeah, not into it.
But when I'm there and doing it, I love it.
Hey!
[DJ] This is what I wanted to talk about.
We pieced it out who would be who.
-[DJ] How did that conversation go? -Myles has blond hair, so Baby Spice.
Hey.
Charlie, Scary Spice.
I look more like my mom than Scary Spice though.
[Tom] I'm tall, long legs, so we thought
Victoria Beckham, Posh Spice.
Then it was between Josh and Joe for our Sporty and--
Geri's bought a figure 'cause I'm severely malnourished.
[laughing]
[Tom] Yeah, so then Joe was Sporty.
And then that made the line up then, Josh was Geri.
♪ Tonight is the night ♪
♪ When two become one ♪
Who doesn't love dressing up as a girl?
Hey.
Especially with legs like mine.
You can go on Instagram and look, they're very, very hairy.
[DJ] Good luck for all the gigs coming up,
especially Edgeley Park which will be amazing.
Yeah, nice one. Good luck to you.
-Can't wait. -Cheers, boys.
-See you later. -Cheers.
-Get some pictures. -Yeah.
Won't be around forever, will I? I'm 60 this year.
["I can't stand it" by Blossoms]
[audience chanting]
♪ There's a passage in my mind ♪
♪ The pockets starts of you ♪
♪ And all the things that come with emotional ties ♪
♪ Though memories do fade ♪
♪ This heavy heart inside of me ♪
♪ Hates that I said all those things to you then ♪
♪ I'd forget you if I could ♪
♪ I know I probably should be sleeping ♪
♪ Not thinking this through ♪
♪ But I can't stand it ♪
♪ I can't stand it ♪
♪ Fooling myself dry ♪
♪ You're like no other ♪
♪ Puts myself for some amnesia ♪
♪ To keep me in line ♪
♪ Why do I fall in love ♪
♪ With the least bit of attention ♪
♪ I need some direction affection in time ♪
♪ I'd forget you if I could ♪
♪ I know I probably should be sleeping ♪
♪ Not thinking this through ♪
♪ But I can't stand it ♪
♪ I can't stand it ♪
♪ When I was thinking of a plan ♪
♪ She sent the snow then took my hand ♪
♪ I shut you out, you changed my mind ♪
♪ The echoes fall beside the scenes where you would cry ♪
♪ I'd forget you if I could ♪
♪ I know I probably should be sleeping ♪
♪ Not thinking this through ♪
♪ But I can't stand it ♪
♪ I can't stand it ♪
[Myles] Edgeley Park, I went once when I was about ten or something.
And that was the first football stadium I went to.
[audience cheering]
I think, we were watching Stockport County versus, obviously someone.
And I think, when the other team scored...
I stood up and went, "Yes, County!"
[audience booing]
And it wasn't even them.
I was getting some funny looks. I've not been back since.
It's weird, 'cause it's 15,000 people,
it's a lot of people.
But in my head I was being a bit blase about it.
And then when I went the other day,
I saw how big it was.
And it's still a football fucking stadium, isn't it?
[Tom] I never get nervous for gigs, really,
and I'm really, really nervous for this gig, so.
I don't know whether it's the whole occasion.
And the fact it, it's been sold out for months.
If it went on sale last week, I wouldn't be as nervous but because
it's been such a run up to it.
Usually when you do other big gigs, you turn up on the day.
You're just there and everything's presented to you
within a couple of hours.
But these added thoughts,
whether it's guest list, where everyone's sitting,
making sure everyone's all right...
You're not getting the stage...
you don't have that when you're playing in Moscow.
You hear that? Myles went, "Is it in the middle?"
If you're looking at it from here.
Yeah, it's because you're looking from an angle.
Get on this.
Charles used to wear, drive for Home Run Pizzas.
They're over there.
And I used to work for Fair Price Funerals.
[cameraman] Looking at that, how does that make you feel then, hometown?
-It's making it more real-- -Shitting myself.
-[laughing] -It'll be fine.
It's the opposite for me. I've been nervous this week
but seeing that it's like, "Oh, it'll be fine."
It doesn't feel like it's for us.
-It's weird. -It's big though.
This is the first time we've done anything of this size so,
it's that stepping into the stadium and that level of band.
Luton's doing a fly down,
bought a window seat so I can take a picture from the air,
booked it on the wrong fucking side of the plane, bastard.
[Tom] It's what we've been building up to
since we started the band.
It's something we joked about doing years ago,
saying, "Oh, imagine putting a gig on at County."
We were like, "Oh, imagine playing Edgeley Park."
We should be the first person to put a gig on.
It would be amazing. There's never been a gig there.
We've always said it, so to actually do it.
-Feels like a win. -Yeah.
You do big gigs, don't you? You do big gigs all the time,
that's what you always want to do as a band.
But I think, to do a big gig in your hometown,
where everyone seems to be coming together,
and even with Stockport County getting promoted...
I don't know, it feels like a bit more than a gig.
I don't think we'll ever be able to recreate...
something like it again.
-'Sup, Charles. -Can I help you?
[Joe] What's up, mate?
Get up there and see what needs fixing up.
[laughing]
[unintelligible]
[laughing]
[Joe] I was having a proper heart-to-heart as well.
Ratchet, hammer, level. [whistles]
-[Joe] Check it's level. -Are we?
[Joe] Do it-- do it on the floor.
Check the floor first.
Let's get it on this railing, it's magnetic, this.
-[blowing] -[Joe laughing]
[metal pinging]
-Bang on, that. -Yeah, not bad, that.
[Joe] Fair play.
-All coming together. -Yeah, it is.
[Josh] In terms of milestones,
where we're up to, I'd say it's the most special thing.
Ah, the legend's lounge.
[Myles] You can play a gig anywhere,
you know what I mean? We played the Pyramid Stage.
We've done The Gorillaz, the Academies and then the Apollo.
We've supported bands at the Etihad and Wembley.
But they're not our fans, this is just our fans.
It's something different when it's your own headline,
somewhere where you've lived so close to.
It means so much more.
[fan] Charlie still comes down.
He still comes to County.
That's why this gig's important.
-They've come home. -'Cause they've come back.
[soft guitar strumming]
It's definitely a celebration
of both the town and the band.
For Stockport this is massive.
They're giving something back, aren't they?
[Josh] I can't remember the last time 15 thousand people
were in Edgeley, do you know what I mean?
People aren't used to seeing big gigs in Stockport, are they?
We love the Blossoms.
This is a fucking great band.
[Joe] Says a lot about people in Stockport
and that sort of loyalty that people have towards us.
Seeing them go from being dead small
to playing a hometown doing Edgeley Park.
[Joe] People all over the world are flying over,
to sort of watch us.
And it blows my head,
I can't believe that people are flying back.
I'm from Australia, but I knew of the Blossoms
before I even came to Stockport.
-Is she from Stockport? -Yeah, I am from Stockport, thank you.
[Charlie] It's a great thing for the town.
[Josh] I feel proud for us and for Stockport
because nobody talks about Stockport like we do.
Best place in the world, mate.
["Texia" by Blossoms]
[Charlie] I'd like to think that we've done something for where we're from.
We didn't want to class ourselves with all the other bands
that are from the surrounding areas and say, "We're from Manchester."
Like Tom always says when he gets a letter through his letterbox,
it says Stockport on it.
-Why say anything else? -I think Tom just said it at a gig,
I think he was like...
Good evening Stockport, we are Blossoms from Stockport.
[Myles] It just stuck after that.
[Tom] This song's called "Honey Sweet," everyone.
["Honey Sweet" by Blossoms]
[Joe] It's just a typical, northern, working-class town.
[Josh] We've got a hat museum.
We'd like to say we've got Europe's largest brick structure.
Not entirely sure how true that is anymore.
We've got a glass pyramid.
It's got the big cinema now.
It used to have another cinema, this one's better.
It's a good vibe in Stockport.
[Charlie] I always feel like it's the black sheep in a certain way.
It's a big town but it's not quite a city.
And it's kind of overshadowed by Manchester a lot.
So I feel like it's always left out.
Why don't you go to John's Cafe on the market?
I think if it wasn't close to Manchester, it'd be a bit kind of... secluded.
But it depends how old you are.
Growing up, I never craved anything from elsewhere.
[Joe] It's just home, isn't it?
I don't know, there's something about it, it's cosy.
And it's just dead easy.
Why would I buy a house in London, live in a thimble?
[Myles] People are nice, everyone's hard-working.
The life revolves around football, music and drinking.
[Joe] Everyone's up for a good chat.
There's a few pubs in Stockport you go,
"Oh, I won't go in there." But when you do go in,
you always have a good laugh.
[cameraman] You have lovely hands.
[laughing]
[Josh] People will take the piss out of you, but in a very endearing way,
especially if you've got long hair, and you're a bloke.
[Tom] The town's got behind us as a band.
Which both shows what it's like as a town.
[Josh] I've spent a lot of good times
and happy times in Stockport.
I think there's something in the water. And it's made us five what we are today.
♪ And show my love ♪
♪ A heart attack I'm told I should have known ♪
♪ No more nights alone, so cold ♪
♪ Let's go back discreet, honey sweet ♪
♪ 'Cause teardrops stain skies of thunder ♪
♪ Autumn pain, I change my number ♪
♪ I've seen you two about ♪
♪ And can we talk about rebounding ♪
[Charlie] Okay, I'm going to show you how to reload film
onto the 1976 Pentax 6x7 camera.
I was quite into football when I was a kid.
It was just out to all hours, which you don't really find that anymore.
I've been told I was very, very affable.
Quite approachable, fairly easy going.
Quite creative, always pristine, never used to get muddy.
[Myles] There's all these stories of me being a bit strange as a kid.
One of my earliest memories is me and my brother
fighting in a skip outside our house.
You know what it's like, the older brother picking on the younger.
It was the other way around with me.
But it's fine, you know, we're friends now.
[Tom] Pretty quiet, I'd say.
Kept myself to myself.
Football crazy, that was the center of everything.
[Joe] I reckon I was a bit of a nerd, you know.
I was like a counselor at school.
Got voted the nicest school kid in my year, I don't know why.
I don't know who voted, actually.
[Josh] Quite a peculiar child,
which I don't think has changed.
That went through to my first ever job,
which was being a professional clown, which is real,
that happened, I was clowning for a good while.
For some reason I got into this circus realm,
but it was far less sketchy than running away to a circus.
It was just this place where you'd go and learn to juggle.
Seems really, really odd when I look back at it now.
Now I'm sat here, a grown-ass man, you know, yeah, strange times.
But yeah, I rode to Joe's house on a unicycle.
It's pushing a mile, I reckon, that.
So, I'm quite proud of that one.
I had to hang up the nose and the oversized shoes.
I think I knew that clowning was over for me.
[Tom] Thank you very much, everyone.
Is anyone in love in the audience tonight in Stockport?
This is for anyone in love.
There's a few of you.
♪ My eyes align with you ♪
♪ You're on my side ♪
♪ And I'm all truth ♪
♪ She said I never lie ♪
♪ You are rare and I care ♪
♪ Yes, I should show it more sometimes ♪
♪ Some words won't hurt ♪
♪ A metaphor, our flight ♪
♪ Now I'll be gone for weeks and forgetting to tell you ♪
♪ You're just a flight away ♪
♪ You give me that love talk ♪
♪ It only made me feel worse ♪
♪ I hate leaving the town that owns me ♪
♪ Tonight your mind will be love talk, love talk ♪
♪ I'm sat in your car ♪
♪ I play some big star ♪
♪ Ten years came pretty soon ♪
♪ Then you whisper, I will miss you ♪
♪ Only you can change my mood ♪
♪ You look at me and you say ♪
♪ Why can't they go without you ♪
♪ You're just a flight away ♪
♪ You give me that love talk ♪
♪ Only made me feel worse ♪
♪ I hate leaving the town that owns me ♪
♪ Tonight your mind will be love talk, love talk ♪
♪ Talk to me, sha la la la ♪
♪ Talk to me ♪
[audience cheering]
♪ You're just a flight away ♪
♪ You give me that love talk ♪
♪ Only made me feel worse ♪
♪ I hate leaving the town that owns me ♪
♪ Tonight your mind will be love talk, love talk ♪
♪ You're just a flight away ♪
♪ Give me that love talk ♪
♪ Only made me feel worse ♪
♪ I hate leaving the town that owns me ♪
♪ Tonight your mind will be love talk, love talk ♪
[audience applauding]
Thank you.
How we feeling, Stockport? We feeling good?
[audience cheering]
It's nice to see so many of you come out, it's good.
Funny story.
Last time me and Joe were here,
ten years ago to this month, we had our prom
in that building over there.
[audience cheering]
In our little suits and the fucking limo.
Ten years later and we're stood in front of
you beautiful people, so there we go.
[audience cheering]
[Joe] For this gig, obviously the big gig,
I was like, we should go into the tailors,
we'll flesh out a few ideas with them
and just sort of get some stuff made.
This is where I used to work.
Last few days we've been working on set
and then today working on what we're going to look like.
You have to use your imagination here.
-Hey there. -How you doing?
-Nice to see you, mate. -Nice to see you.
-[Joe] How are things? Good? -[Carl] Good, very good.
What did you do when you worked here?
My first job, when I came in, I used to have
to hoover the mat at the front and sweep down all these.
[cameraman] What was Joe like when working here?
-Brilliant. -[laughing]
Yeah, he was amazing.
[steady bass drum beating]
[Joe] He was like a proper apprentice.
I'd sort of learned a lot.
I look like I know what I'm doing in that video. Look quite professional.
[Carl] What's the plan?
[Tom] We've got the biggest show we've ever done.
And we want to look good, don't we?
-Yeah. -I liked the idea of a stripe somewhere,
-either on the pants or-- -[Josh] That would be cool.
On the arm. I like them quite high-waisted and tight around the top
and then the little flare at the bottom.
-Joe's doing it. -[Joe] What are you saying?
-Red suit, black stripe? -Yeah.
-That's cool. -[Myles] I think that's cool.
-Let's meet in the middle. -That's too "Fuck off."
Your arms are two inches wide, you know what I mean?
I'm going for a wide, '70s kind of lapel.
-Sky blue, white shirt. -My suit's basically based on
the old footballer, Frank Worthington.
That's the vibe I'm going for.
[cameraman] Did you think he was going to make it?
Yeah, of course.
-That's why he employed me. -[chuckling]
Even though it was a good job and I loved it,
it was still the monotonous drives every day.
I was driving, I was listening to Radio XFM at the time.
And I remember they played, I think it was "Cut Me I'll Bleed"
or I can't remember what tune it was,
"Blown Rose" or something like that, maybe even "Blow."
I was driving to work and I just went, "I'm going to quit."
And I sort of drove into work.
And he went, "It's the band, isn't it? You're doing really well?"
And he was dead, dead sound, and was like, "I completely understand."
-So, when are you leaving?" -And I went, "Oh, now."
He went, "Right now?"
[tires squealing]
I remember just driving home, turning the music up dead loud
and just having all the windows down driving home, like, "Yes! I've done it."
And then thinking, "Fuck, I still live at home,
I've got to go to Mom and Dad now and say, I've quit my job."
You know what I mean? Shit.
I was like, it could all go tits up and I could be back here
in a few months going, "Can I have my job back, please? I'm sorry."
He knows the job's still open. He's coming back one day.
So to go back there and it actually work out.
-See you. -[shopkeeper] Bye, see you later.
[upbeat music]
So we're back.
Tom and Miles got theirs on, looking good.
Joe's there, leather with flames,
taking a big longer 'cause obviously it's leather with flames.
They wanted to tie us in with something. We didn't want to wear the same thing.
Then I said, "I wanted a stripe."
And Joe was like, "Oh, we could all wear the stripes."
He nicked my idea, really.
-I let him off 'cause he does look good. -They're good on you.
-Really good. -For that.
-Christ, that's good. -Cool, isn't it?
-Have a bit of ankle showing here. -You want a little bit of ankle?
-Would that work? -[laughing]
Say you get the pants taken in a bit?
Really good clothes, them, Charlie. Proper your vibe, isn't it?
Love it.
Oh, that is fucking tight, that.
Tight.
Whenever I've had anything made here,
particularly trousers, they measure me up and they go...
"Do you want pockets on the trousers, or not?"
And I go, "Well, why wouldn't you have pockets?"
"We don't normally if you don't need them or use them.
But we're going to give you them because you don't have an ass."
[chuckles]
-So, now-- -Oh, is that what's happened?
They give him pockets so his ass,
so it's more sticking out.
[Josh] Yeah, it's my equivalent of a padded bra.
-Fucking hell. -For when you're drumming.
Yeah, yeah, I'm not--
[Tom] Are you even going to walk on in the blazer?
So, we released a new song the other day
and it's called "Your Girlfriend," this is it.
[audience cheering]
[Tom] When a song comes together, in the rehearsal room or studio,
I have an idea for a song, I take it to the lads
and then we build on it and it becomes the song,
that's always great.
[piano notes play]
Listen to it.
When I was about 19, I thought, "Oh, I'm actually, pretty good at this."
But I never thought I would go on to do what we did.
♪ ...possible, she likes me too? ♪
[guitar strumming]
I was in my first relationship by that point.
I think that's when things changed. I've written songs in my old band
up until that point. But I didn't really have anything to draw on it.
I wrote a song called "Just Sixteen" which was about
the girls in our year at secondary school, going out
and drinking when they shouldn't be.
♪ You got your fake ID now ♪
♪ You get in all the bars ♪
♪ But you forget that you're still sixteen ♪
♪ And you act like a drama queen ♪
[Tom] I didn't have a relationship till I was 19,
that's when I started writing about that.
And then love songs come. And then heartbreak songs come
and then, my first breakup coincided as Blossom started,
which I think ignited a whole turn of songwriting for me
and the drive to want to do it.
Things happen for reasons, don't they? I think that definitely did.
[keyboard notes playing]
["Your Girlfriend" by Blossoms]
You might just have it on the first one, but on the last hit of the chorus.
Just put it on every one, just 'cause I want to hear it.
[laughing]
["Your Girlfriend" by Blossoms]
There's loads of influences, it's a bit of everything, we've kind of like--
it is very poppy, like, the songwriting's classic pop songwriting.
And then you've got Charlie's kind of like '70s groovy Motown, vibey base on it.
And then you got Josh's harsh guitar parts that he puts on them.
And then you've got like the--
everyone's got their own influences that we put together
which makes Blossoms.
Do we like that?
It's just the decay at the end of it, could you ride that up on something?
If you put the transit master on it and turn the decay up, that's what it will do.
It's hard to describe any band by just a few words in it.
But yeah, I just say...
synth guitar pop, there we go.
Is that the right sound?
I think the main thing is just releasing music
which people like.
Arriba!
[maracas shaking]
[James] If you're going to have just a normal shaker thing,
you may as well do it on profit. You know with like the--
-Oh, like we did on-- -Yeah, like... thing.
Like the horse-riding one.
Yeah.
[synthetic beats]
Fuck me, yeah.
[James] 'Cause the groove's natural within it,
you can't really have that, can you?
["Your Girlfriend" by Blossoms playing]
I don't even know that it needs the shaking.
When my dad first showed me how to play the bass,
I knew straight-away, this is something I want to get into.
♪ I'm a boy ♪
♪ And she's a girl ♪
♪ With more charm than most movie stars ♪
♪ So we met ♪
[Charlie] I never thought, I'd do it to this level,
but I knew I'd always be playing music, do you know what I mean?
♪ Your girlfriend is ringing in my ears again ♪
♪ It's no sure shot ♪
♪ But she likes all my favorite things ♪
♪ I know I shouldn't but ♪
♪ I'd like to spend more time with her ♪
♪ I wish she'd come over today ♪
[electric guitar playing]
♪ What am I supposed to do ♪
♪ I can tell, they get along so well ♪
♪ Is it possible, she likes me too ♪
♪ I'm not sure if I should read between those lines ♪
♪ And now your girlfriend is ringing in my ears again ♪
♪ I should be moving out ♪
♪ But can't 'cause we've just signed a lease ♪
♪ My hands are shaking ♪
♪ The bedroom walls are paper thin ♪
♪ I heard her come over today ♪
♪ Thought maybe we'd go out for a movie ♪
♪ And we can forget friends who'll be fuming ♪
♪ Then I could walk you home in the evening ♪
♪ And that's just being friendly ♪
♪ And now your girlfriend is ringing in my ears again ♪
♪ And when she smiles I can't hide my jealousy ♪
♪ Oh I can't take it boy, I hope she's faking it ♪
♪ I heard he bought a ring today ♪
♪ Ooo ♪
♪ I heard they got engaged today ♪
[audience cheering]
Thank you.
It's our first ever single, it's called "Blow."
[audience cheering]
♪ The cold road is all I know ♪
♪ The old road is where she blows ♪
♪ The cold road is all I know ♪
♪ The old road is where she blows ♪
♪ I still never cry for love ♪
♪ The last time I asked you why ♪
♪ The last time she saw me cry ♪
♪ The last time I asked you why ♪
♪ The last time she saw me cry ♪
♪ I still never did shy from my love ♪
♪ And it's everywhere she goes ♪
♪ I don't know ♪
♪ If it's love that she wants ♪
♪ All the love I want ♪
♪ Yeah, she blows ♪
♪ Oh she blows ♪
[Tom] I feel like we're in such an amazing position to say,
to try and pick out what's the worst thing makes you seem like you're moaning.
And I know there's a million other kids who would
love to be in my position.
So, I don't think anyone really wants to hear it,
if there is something, you have good days and bad days, don't you?
There's pressure but you try not to let it consume you,
'cause I'm the songwriter, that's why I have to write the songs.
Imagine I never wrote a song again, what the fuck would we do?
The worst thing about it is putting myself
under pressure in my own brain.
[gentle music]
But I think it's a good enough amount to drive you.
[Myles] When you're away from home for, like, a long period of time,
that can be a bit shit sometimes.
Just missing your friends and your family
and your girlfriend and that kind of things.
But that comes with anything, that's just being away.
That's got nothing to do with being in a band.
I think it's broke.
[Emily] I thought it was the other one that broke.
[Myles] This is the other one.
How long am I away for?
It's nine days, isn't it?
["Like Gravity" by Blossoms]
[Josh] Life on the bus, it's one of my favorite places to be, the tour bus.
[Tom] You can take the party wherever you want.
[Myles] There's something about it, when you first get in bed.
When you used to have sleepovers or go camping,
you kick your legs in the bed, you get dead excited, it's like that.
It's like a big sleepover.
Try to eat without your hands.
And that's the first night, after two weeks
with 16 lads on the tour bus, it's hanging.
Proper lad bus, isn't it? It's stunk of ass.
Everyone's on the beers playing Fifa.
-[Tom] Yeah, fun fact for you. -[Joe] Here we go.
Oldest logo in the world, Stella.
[Tom] When you've been on a bus for a few days
and you've got to have a shower in a venue, it can get annoying.
They think it's mint backstage and the showers are class,
it's just a fiberglass box, isn't it?
-All right these showers, aren't they? -What?
[Tom] On the whole, it's fun.
[Josh] It's wake up in the morning,
have a coffee and go and explore whichever city you're in.
And then you're back to this home on wheels,
it's a really special place, I think.
[Charlie] Joe always ribs me for speaking to the drivers, getting their numbers
and texting them on a regular basis.
Why are you texting our bus drivers?
He's a fucking normal guy.
[Charlie] I'm an old soul. And I just get on with everyone, I suppose.
-Take care. -Cheers.
Have a nice night.
["If You Think This Is Real Life" by Blossoms]
Welcome to Vancouver. Have a great, wonderful day.
Where should we go? What do you fancy doing?
Traveling is something that when I was growing up,
I hated, I'm a proper home bird.
But traveling with your mates in a band
is the best thing ever.
Just traveling around and playing music that you've made
and other people enjoying it in front of you.
It's just, yeah, it's just all around good.
[Tom] It was like a school trip but as an adult in a way.
We're hitting up Niagara Falls.
[Josh] It's something you always dream of
as a kid to travel the world,
tour the world for a living.
You sometimes got to pinch yourself.
["My Swimming Brain" by Blossoms]
[Tom] That's one of the fondest memories, I've been in a band,
being in a really unknown city where everything's different
to, like, Stockport and being at home, like, Japan, we've been there a few times.
And that springs to mind as one of our favorite places.
I'm usually the one finding restaurants on my phone
and any city we've played in,
I've Googled, best bolognese in...
[Joe] There's something about it, everywhere we go,
it's the only thing we can all agree on.
Check this out for a review.
Their homemade tagliatelle with bolognese is great.
Must be good then.
[laughing]
Very nice Ragu, yeah.
[Charlie] It's very strange when you come back
from touring, say if you've been away for two, three weeks,
and then you come back to Stockport.
It's a really strange feeling coming back to normality.
♪ I'm a stranger ♪
It's a weird one because you get knackered on tour.
And then when you're off the tour, you're desperate to be back on tour.
And not a lot of people understand that feeling
and they kind of brush it off as something that's normal,
but it's quite difficult to come back and adapt
to normal life when you've been
in the middle of screaming fans, looking at you.
But I wouldn't change it for anything.
This song's called "Blown Rose," everybody.
[audience cheering]
♪ I made my wish a rose ♪
♪ Covered in old spangles ♪
♪ Beside a river flows ♪
♪ Felicia, I miss you ♪
♪ The stately homes of England ♪
♪ How beautiful they stand ♪
♪ 'Cause lately it's a lonely love, I know ♪
♪ Blown rose, girl ♪
♪ I made my wish a rose ♪
♪ Wrapped in desire ♪
♪ She cries let me know ♪
♪ Felicia, where are you? ♪
♪ The stately homes of England ♪
♪ How beautiful they stand ♪
♪ 'Cause lately it's a lonely love, I know ♪
♪ Blown rose, girl ♪
[Myles] What we do we take very seriously.
There's a side to us which is very banded,
we want this to be as perfect
as we can possible make it this time.
Are you going to be leaving the straps on a stand?
But then on the flip side, when we're not doing that.
We're just being us.
-I've started wearing nipple stickers. -Nipple stickers?
[Myles] They're always fucking poking out.
[Josh] I'd like to think that people perceive us
as regular people, because that's just what we are.
Just doing a bit of a strange job.
♪ Thought maybe we'd go out for a movie ♪
[Charlie] When you get picked up by a major record label,
they try and morph you into someone that you're not.
Whereas we've been quite fortunate.
And our label have kind of left us to our own devices.
["The Keeper" by Blossoms]
Yeah, we've kind of had a lot of creative freedom,
which has helped us out massively and done us a lot of favors.
That's really important, I think, in a band.
[audience cheering]
For the people that matter, I think we're well respected.
Let's have a round of applause for Charlie Salt on the bass guitar.
[Charlie] We've always had big praise from BBC, for example.
Ever since we were on the sound poll and things like that.
I know a few peers who have spoke to us, Noel
or Paul Weller or Alex Turner.
They've all said lovely things about us, which is mad.
'Cause they're huge idols in my eyes.
[Charlie] If they're into you, you're doing something right.
We've seen Charlie Sheen.
John Levinson's chilling over there.
[people chattering]
Stockport's finest are here.
We don't really fit in, do we?
It's just weird when someone like Noel invites you on a tour,
you can see him side stage watching you.
You are just there thinking, this is mad.
But then the other part of you is like,
I work so hard, 'cause I want to get to that level.
[Josh] Until you meet people and you spend a bit of time with them,
they are just, like, figures that you see on stage.
Then you realize, oh, they're just regular people
that eat soup or drink soup, do you drink or eat soup?
One of the two, but they're just regular people, you know?
["Cool Like You" by The Blossoms]
♪ Cool like you ♪
♪ To be or not to be, I feel my blues ♪
It's just always appealed to a kind of, like, a wide audience.
We've always had the Muse always at the back
and then the young people who go mental at the front, from the beginning.
[Tom] The younger fans are there because we're current.
[woman] Okay, I'll sit down with you.
[Tom] I think the older fans are there because,
I think it's because the music is very cross-generational
and it's not niche in a way,
it's kind of just great melodies and honest,
classic pop songwriting.
-Blossoms, look it up, enjoy. -[cameraman] Blossoms.
Double tap for the like.
Fans of them bands from the '60s
will hear bits from there and they'll like it.
Then these modern twists that kids will be into.
Then these kids who are into all that old stuff as well.
So I think the parents are into that music.
Then the kids become into that music
and then it just kind of lives on and keeps going.
These lyrics don't just appeal to 16 year old girls
or 40 year old men, they appeal to the masses.
♪ And it's everywhere she goes ♪
♪ I don't know if it's you that she wants ♪
Sometimes we'll get recognized in the street.
Or you'll get people coming up for pictures, and what have you.
She came up and she was shaking, this girl.
She was like, "I can't believe you're here, in the Trafford Center."
I was like, "Why?" Just doing a bit of shopping.
[people chattering]
Blossoms? Really quick, can I see your thing?
Can I see your bus? What if we come into Manchester and visit.
-[fan] How was your flight, Tom? -You know what, it was really good.
I even fell asleep.
Come here, come here.
Why are doing a live stream here?
Can you say hi to my sister?
She's called Arimenta.
-What's her name? -Arimenta.
-Arimenta? -Yeah.
Hello, Arimenta, nice to see you.
Could you possibly sign my chin? Thanks, Myles.
[speaking Japanese]
[Josh] When we go to Japan, they print out masks
with Myles' head on it and come to the gig as Myles.
Which is endearing and also slightly terrifying.
I've been a fan and I've waited for a band
behind the stage door and I'm like,
"Are they going to come out, are they not?"
[fan] Joe Donovan, wave to Donovan.
[laughing] Wow!
I absolutely love going out there and just speaking to people.
It just blows my head that, you know,
someone would want, someone would want me to go out there
and say hi to them. Or sign something for them.
I don't know, it means a lot to me.
["Charlemagne" by Blossoms]
[Tom] My fans probably like us, I would like to think it's because it's--
we are like a gang, you can tell we're mates.
When I see some bands I can see through it.
I think, you're not mates, you don't hang out with each other,
whereas we do.
[Charlie] We do have a laugh and we do have a drink,
but it's not like, you'll never see Josh throwing a fucking TV out of a window.
That's just not what we are.
Just going to go out and party now... like always.
I don't fit into the rock and roll world.
I just-- I'll do the gig. You know what I mean? I'll do the gig.
Then I'll watch Antiques Roadshow or something.
[jaunty classical music]
-I've found something interesting. -Okay.
And also there's a...
How we are as people is literally just how we are as people.
So, me talking in front of the camera or me at home,
looking at '70s pottery on eBay,
it's the same, it's the same person, do you know what I mean?
[Tom] This song's called "Getaway," everyone.
♪ Your room, I leave wide door open for me ♪
♪ Dead leaves upon the grass ♪
♪ I walk myself clean through 70 dreams ♪
♪ We broke like a paper seam ♪
♪ But when it breaks don't cry ♪
♪ I'll always hold some place for you ♪
♪ I'm over you ♪
[audience chanting]
[Josh] I really don't think we would be where we are now
and have done the things we've done
if we weren't so-- so tight and close.
It just happens to be the rarest combination of five people
that it just somehow works, you know.
I've known Tom all my life. He's like the nicest person I know.
The most loyal sort of caring guy
I've ever met in my life.
[Josh] He's always been like a big hero of mine, Tom.
He was always doing the creative stuff in school,
he used to make films and stuff, as well.
As well as the music side of things.
[Charlie] Tom's very, very honest. He wears his heart on his sleeve.
It's a good trait, that, I like it.
[Tom] We are very much a democracy and we talk about stuff
-and we're all honest with each other. -Get rid of it.
There comes times when someone has to just take the lead.
First half of that was good on the last take.
And whether that comes from because I write the songs.
And it's naturally ingrained in that way, over the years.
Sometimes it's needed to be like that.
It's not like I rule and I say this, it's not like that at all.
I'd say, I'm the leader but I'm not the loudest.
The loudest, the most honest is Joe.
[laughing]
[Josh] You hear his laugh before anything else.
Even if you're from Manchester, you got to laugh sometimes, right?
Do you not think Manchester people have a laugh?
-We're serious people, right? -Do you reckon?
[Josh] You know, Joe's very intense
and sort of business driven.
Which works entirely in our favor.
He just gets shit done.
Just put all my lot together.
He's the reason why we rehearsed so much in the early days
and, like, that drive and stuff.
Which is good. It's kind of having someone
who's a fan of the band in the band.
[Joe] I think sometimes the lads get annoyed at me about it.
But I sort of second or question everything.
Even if other people are thinking it, he'll be the one to say it.
[Myles] Joe likes winding people up, don't he?
That's his thing, I think he gets bored.
Wind someone up, then he laughs.
-What's this, Myles? -You can make your own maps.
Super Mario maker. It's not even fucking-- it's not working.
You can make your own maps, Super Mario maker. [laughs]
Well, you asked me and I replied, didn't I?
Even I know it's annoying, but I do it with the best interest.
Almost like a family.
[Joe] In an interview or something like that, Myles is the quietest.
-I think, not a lot-- -He'll be threatened to do it for a while.
But then if we were in the studio sort of recording a demo,
Myles is, like, very upfront and very honest.
Have you got a transient on that?
[Joe] Myles is mint in recording. The stuff he adds and stuff,
he's got a great ear for complementing Tom's songwriting.
-I'll leave it till about 30 seconds. -What it is is knowing...
His brain works a little differently to everyone else's.
He's just funny, got funny bones.
He can be odd, but in a lovable way.
He's probably the most insane.
[electronic dance voice]
You kind of melt with your face.
I'm a bruised banana with a golden heart, golden locks, golden friends, man.
I've got a $20 note with gold upon it.
-Louis Theroux. [yelling] -[laughing]
[Tom] But then, Josh has got his own quirks as well.
Josh, he's very alternative in a way.
Trees, plants, rocks and minerals.
He used to have a pasta with salt for tea,
when he was a kid. It's like, who has that? [laughs]
[Charlie] He doesn't need to speak to make you laugh.
He's the unofficial Charlie Chaplin of Stockport.
Really intelligent guy, great musician.
[Tom] Josh is a gifted musician.
[Joe] He seems to pick things up like straight away
or it seems like, and that's what the really genius part.
He'll always compliment a tune.
[drum and piano playing]
I like to think I'm the glue that holds everyone together.
Father figure of the band, hence my age.
[Josh] But Charles is a proper big brother kind of guy.
He's kind of always had me under his wing.
[Charlie] Good for morale, or the night out,
shoulder to cry on. [laughing]
[Myles] He's a good looking guy, isn't he?
[Joe] He's always got a big smile on him.
[Tom] He's just, like, a pleasure to be around.
And just, when he walks into the room, it just kind of, like-- the mood lifts.
He's always up for going out, seeing the city you're in.
He's just always up for, you know, a laugh.
It's always nice in April, isn't it? Land or no.
[Myles] They're bad jokes, but they're good jokes because they're bad.
We liked him because of that.
It's lovely this time of year, Blackpool, isn't it?
[Joe] You are a dad.
[Tom] Probably the best bass player I've ever witnessed.
[Myles] The only person on bass I reckon is better,
is the bass player from Chic.
It's on par though, it's on par, do you know what I mean?
You're a proper organ player if you can do that.
We all just balance each other out
and it's just nature.
[Charlie] You look through history, you see all these bands
that are kicking off with each other every five minutes. They never last, do they?
I think we've got something quite special.
We all get on. We've all got the same sense of humor, which is warped.
But you know, it works.
You need the humor, you need the camaraderie and stuff.
Definitely works when you're on the road and you're spending sort of, like,
three weeks with each other in each other's pocket.
[Joe] I think with us, it's like the next extreme,
because we sort of go on tours and we come back in the rehearsal room.
But then even in our own time, we still see a lot of each other.
-Squirt it in. -Spit it.
It's like a relationship, but it's between five dudes.
-What we got? -What we do doing?
Joe's dad's building a new fence, I don't know why.
[laughing]
[unintelligible]
[Josh] When there's five of you...
Fuck me, that.
...there's a lot of shit going on.
[audience cheering]
[people chattering]
I played the first chord and it was all out of tune.
Thank you very much.
Yay, but keys issues, so.
I can't stop it.
We've just gone into a gig without anything being checked prior.
-And something's gone wrong. -[Joe] Hence the B-rig.
Yeah, and the B-rig wasn't set up.
There's always going to be arguments over something,
whether it's what time we should be leaving to go somewhere
or whether it's this, or whatever you're arguing about.
I completely disagree with you.
You don't know what you're talking about. We need a rig tech.
If someone's annoyed about something or, you know...
they'll speak up and say it.
In the future, we need a production day
-to sort things out. -Listen--
We have an argument, we have it out, and that's it.
You find out your closest mates are the ones you can be honest with.
Exactly, it's fucking stupid!
When you're not friends, that's when things can get tricky.
[Myles] It didn't fucking work.
I'd like to see you on everyone's shoulders, if--
if you can do it, let's get everyone up.
[guitar strumming]
Now, this is a song about heartbreak, Edgeley Park.
This song's called "My Favourite Room."
♪ My friends tell me that I'm stupid ♪
♪ I should be alone without you ♪
♪ It's no fun ♪
♪ I don't think I'm thinking straight ♪
♪ I don't think I want to wait alone, ♪
♪ Without you ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ How do I feel? ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ You make it so real ♪
♪ When you were mine, you were so kind ♪
♪ But you went and changed your mind ♪
♪ And now I don't know what I should do with you ♪
♪ You would tell me everyday ♪
♪ That I'm all yours and it's okay ♪
♪ But no, you don't know ♪
♪ You tell me you know you did wrong ♪
♪ You tell me you know that I belong with you ♪
♪ In my favorite room ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ How do I feel ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ You make it so real ♪
♪ 'Cause when you were mine you were so kind ♪
♪ But you went and changed your mind ♪
♪ Did you think how might I feel ♪
♪ Did you think how might I feel, oh no ♪
♪ You're going to get it, girl ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ I don't know how I feel ♪
♪ With you ♪
♪ You're going to get it, girl ♪
♪ 'Cause if you were mine ♪
♪ I'd treat you so kind ♪
♪ But if you find another lover ♪
♪ Picture me pleasantly ♪
♪ And I'll hold you in my... ♪
[audience cheering]
Thank you very much, everyone.
[Joe] I love just going at the side of the stage and just watching it.
My best mate is singing to 15,000 people and he's got them in the palm of his hand.
And it's just the best feeling ever.
Amazing.
[band murmuring together]
[announcer] The next item...
This is the Mazda RX7 1985.
As featured in "I Can't Stand It" video and on the cover of the second record.
["I Can't Stand It" by Blossoms]
So, my granddad, In 1985, he imported it from Japan.
And I've always been a fan of it. And when I came of age,
I got it out of the garage, cleaned it up a little bit. And I've had it since.
♪ The scenes where you would cry ♪
♪ I'd forget you if I could ♪
We're going to pop up and see Granddad John.
Like I say, you hear him before you see him in the ground.
Charlie! [laughs]
Let's go and give him a knock.
-[John] Charlie, bring your Mazda in here. -[laughs]
-He's already, already giving it that. -Is he?
[laughs]
We always like to think of him as the unofficial
Mayor of Stockport.
-[knocking] -[Charlie laughing]
How are you doing? How are you?
-All right. -You smell nice.
-What have you got on? -Bit of Creed, you know.
[laughing]
He's kind of one of them characters you'd find in like a Dickens novel
that just reoccur every now and again. The joke or two.
I'm here, lads!
I've got it here.
I've got your reroutes, County.
[Charlie] Aside from everything he does for Stockport County.
And he's done so much for us as a band,
and he's our, like, he's our mascot and we love him to bits.
[upbeat rock music]
When Blossoms did a gig-- are we filming?
-Yeah. -When Blossoms did a gig--
-You don't have to say it like that. -When Blossoms--
[both laughing]
It'll be edited out.
When Blossoms did a gig at the Bungalow,
which is next door to County, I organized it.
And I charged Conrad, the manager, 200 quid.
And then I had to chase him for three years for the 200 quid.
He never gave it me.
So in the end, he's put that frame together
and put the 200 quid in the bottom that he owes me
with some nice writing.
If you count the 200 quid, there's only 180 there.
He's done me out of 20, again, Conrad.
[Charlie] I don't think he gets enough credit for what he's done for the band.
Do you want some more light in here?
I think you're one of the main catalysts for our success.
-Do you think so? -100%. Yeah.
-Everyone in the band would say that. -Oh, that's very nice, that.
[Tom] We rehearsed at a scaffolding yard. We had a room where we didn't have to pay,
and it was like our hub and to have that kind of base
in the really early days, yeah, we're forever grateful.
Cheers.
[Charlie] We had some good times in that yard.
It was only right to have it on the debut album cover.
I don't think he can ever have imagined early days
that they would have achieved what they've achieved now.
It's been great for me to have the involvement with you on it.
-Of course it has, yeah. -You know.
I did the one where I'm running on at the start
to announce the gig, didn't I?
You're playing here next year, there's a reason why.
What else have I done?
I reckon I could get a job at Christmas doing this.
-Father Christmas. -Phone.
-[phone ringing] -Phone.
[laughing]
I think that was a brilliant video, that.
[Charlie] Nice thing is, wherever I go,
specifically in and around Stockport,
everyone always takes the time to ask how my granddad is.
And of late, he's had a little bit of ill health.
And as you get older, you start to appreciate
quality time with him more.
[John] I hope we've done something right in the way
we've brought all our children and grandchildren up.
We've always found that an important thing.
[Charlie] You take it for granted when you're young
but things change, you appreciate who he is as a person a lot more.
If you understand what I'm saying.
I've tried to lead my life...
through a film that I watched when I was a boy
called, It's A Wonderful Life.
Very important the way you conduct your lives, you be kind
and generous and generous of heart.
You don't have to be generous with money.
You have to be generous of heart and generous of soul
to everybody you meet, and make them feel warm and wanted.
And that they're important.
-It's not hard, is it? -No, it isn't.
I'm getting upset now.
[Charlie] Great heart.
Great sense of humor.
He'll do anything for you.
I mean, he's more than a hero.
[John] Everybody who asks me about Charlie, they always say,
"I bet you're dead proud of him."
And I always say, "I'm more proud of the lad he's turned out
than anything he's done with the band."
That's more important.
♪ We're leaving here ♪
This is only starting the journey.
How far he's going to go, I mean,
it's the moon and back, isn't it?
To the moon and back.
[Charlie] Thanks, Granddad.
♪ It's never fair ♪
♪ But I still care and I know you do too ♪
♪ There's a lot of me that's you ♪
Are you ready, Stockport?
I said, are you ready?
Blossoms!
[audience cheering]
[low electronic bass]
[audience cheering]
♪ Let's get my mucky self washed ♪
♪ April is the cruelest month ♪
♪ I'm insecure, fuzzy lines crossed ♪
♪ Playful, I'm the coolest sun ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ It's okay, I didn't do drugs ♪
♪ A kiss before the girl gets lost ♪
♪ And hearing on the phone how much ♪
♪ You missed me only made it hurt ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh faithful ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ Late last night, you asked me ♪
♪ Am I the most important thing ♪
♪ It's looming that I might lose you ♪
♪ 'Cause you don't love me like you used to ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ It's fatal ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh unfaithful ♪
♪ Unfaithful ♪
[Tom] Thank you very much.
[audience cheering]
Let's have a round of applause for Joshua Dewhurst
on the lead guitar, everyone.
[Josh] I've always been surrounded by music, growing up.
A lot of parents would be quite cautious
when the kid is like, "I'm going to quit everything
and try and make it, so to speak."
With my dad being a musician,
it was always a sense that that was achievable.
Hey, how you doing, mate?
-Good to see you. You all right? -You okay?
We're so lucky to have his talents. They've also worked in our favor.
He's done a lot of arrangements for us and he's come and played with us at gigs
and he's arranged some stuff for Edgeley Park, as well,
which is nice because we thought, we got to have him involved on some level.
["Charlemagne" by Blossoms]
[Tom] We thought it'd special to do a midnight launch gig
in our hometown, Stockport,
we'd go on stage at the exact same time playing the album in track by track order.
Which I've not heard anyone else do before.
[Robin] The idea of having a gig here was genius,
because no one had done it before.
Not on that scale.
I think you got Rod Stewart tribute, people like that.
-And Take That. -Yeah, take this, yeah.
[both laughing]
["At Most A Kiss" by Blossoms]
[Josh] I'm always extra anxious
for any kind of hometown gig.
-You'll be there and Mom will be there. -Right.
[Josh] It just seems to have an extra thing.
It's not a pressure, it's just,
-more excitement, you know what I mean? -Yeah.
-[Josh] It's great but equally terrifying. -[Robin laughing]
Hey, how are you doing, you all right?
Would it be all right to have a little nosy round?
-Absolutely. -For old time sake.
-Be my guest. No problem. -Thank you. Wonderful.
[Josh] First album, we-- yeah, midnight show,
we played when the album came out.
-Yeah, I remember, it was amazing. -And we did it in its entirety.
You said, "I'm gonna play a new one for you now," at the end,
-and just did "Charlemagne" again. -Oh, yeah.
[Josh] Because everyone was already buzzing off that tune by then.
-It was amazing. -Yeah.
Then playing the piano here.
[classical piano playing]
-And that organ. -And then the organ, yeah.
Absolutely insane.
Next time we'll get you on that one.
[audience applauding and murmuring]
-Doesn't Granddad have a chair here? -He has, yeah.
-Dedicated. -I think it's number ten, 'cause--
he lived at number ten, didn't he?
It was tactical with the ten and then the-- what was his road?
-Melbourne. -Melbourne, 10M.
-Yeah, that's it. Yeah. -Oh, that's it?
In memory of Rodney Drewan Robinson,
-our lovely dad and friend of the Plaza. -Yeah.
He's got a good seat, hasn't he?
-Look at that, prime view, really. -Yeah.
You can see everything.
-I hope someone gets me a chair here. -[Robin laughing]
It did feel quite theatrical down in the dressing room.
Like we were going to come out and do, you know,
-he's behind you thing. -[Robin chuckles]
[Tom] I said it's a pantomime.
-[Robin] Your pantomime style. -[Josh] Yeah.
[Josh] Yeah, it was just a real unique thing, really.
["My Favourite Room" by Blossoms]
You kind of get the sense that Stockport's behind
-all what we do. -Oh, definitely. Yeah.
Kind of feel like people believe in us and whatnot.
-You got a lot of pride, ain't it. -People do buzz off the fact that
-we big it up so much. -You've always done that.
We've always said Blossoms from Stockport not Blossoms from Manchester.
-[Robin] No, no. -[Josh] Yeah.
[Robin] You should be very proud of it.
-Yeah, I just can't believe it. -Ambassadors of Stockport.
Can't believe any of it, really.
Yeah. Insane.
[audience cheering]
Let's have a round of applause for Myles Kellock on the keyboards, everybody.
[guitar strumming]
♪ There's a reason why ♪
[audience singing]
♪ I want to know ♪
♪ Since you've been gone ♪
♪ Have I been on ♪
♪ Your mind ♪
♪ 'Cause I know I was for a while ♪
♪ Late last night ♪
♪ I saw you out ♪
♪ For a moment I ♪
♪ Turned to stone ♪
♪ 'Cause there's still something only we see ♪
♪ Don't talk ♪
♪ I'd run to kiss your mouth ♪
♪ Is it me or ♪
♪ Just a dream that never dies ♪
♪ There's a reason why ♪
♪ I never returned your calls ♪
♪ I wish I could forget it all ♪
♪ But I never returned your calls ♪
♪ 'Cause I'd fall in again ♪
♪ We're leaving here ♪
♪ We're on the run ♪
♪ The time has come ♪
♪ I don't hear no alarms ♪
♪ Fall asleep in my arms ♪
♪ A lover's game ♪
♪ Is never fair ♪
♪ But I still care and I know you do too ♪
♪ 'Cause there's a part of me that's you ♪
♪ Don't talk ♪
♪ I'd run to kiss your mouth ♪
♪ Is it me or ♪
♪ Just a dream that never dies ♪
♪ There's a reason why ♪
♪ I never returned your calls ♪
♪ I wish I could forget it all ♪
♪ But I never returned your calls ♪
♪ 'Cause I'd fall in again ♪
♪ I still find parts of you ♪
♪ In the corners of my bedroom ♪
♪ Someday comes too soon ♪
♪ The radio plays our favorite tune again ♪
♪ There's a reason why ♪
♪ I never returned your calls ♪
♪ I wish I could forget it all ♪
♪ But I never returned your calls ♪
♪ 'Cause I'd fall in again ♪
[audience cheering]
[Tom chuckles] Come on, George, watch the shit.
All right, you're getting off now. Come on.
Everyone knows who we are now.
So, people always want to talk to you about it.
I'm a dead antisocial dog walker, me.
I'll, like, go the other way if I see people coming and stuff like that.
I'll say hello and stuff, but I'm not like,
don't go out my way to be like, "How's your day been?" It's just not me.
But when I'm on stage and doing stuff, then that's when
I can come out my shell a bit more.
But then that's more like an act, isn't it?
It's not really what I'm like day to day, to be honest.
George.
When you're on stage, you can't see the whites in people's eyes, you know,
I'm addressing like 15,000 people, aren't I?
Like, if I have to address one person who I've never met
on a dog walk, it's like, that fills me with more fear.
-Which sounds mad, but it does. -[dog barking]
What? What do you want?
We all still live in Stockport.
There's a normality to it.
Doing stuff like this, when you are home every day,
it kind of just feels, you know, it's a million miles away from...
like, Edgeley Park or the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury or whatever.
In the past, I've worked myself up, saying in between albums
and have been, say, on the road for a while and you come home,
and I used to struggle a bit with switching off.
But I just-- you find other things that, like cooking.
Just dead normal things, walking the dog.
Say I've been in the house, trying-- writing tunes,
and then I can come away for half an hour. Come in here and walk George.
Then I'll be over there and a tune will pop into my head.
Then I'll sing it into my phone, then go back. And then I'm away again.
But the fact we are here and you can go and see your family,
you can go and do other things.
I think it's just being able to walk away from it, if you need to.
♪ The last time I asked you... ♪
The gig will always stay with us because it's-- it was the first of its kind.
And it was like the first time we'd played a stadium.
And I probably built it up to be something
in my head too much, you know, because I wanted everything to be perfect.
I wanted where the parents were sat to be perfect.
I was worrying about that. I was like-- you know, and you can't take on all that.
You need to just step back and be like, just play the gig, enjoy it.
We didn't want to stay in Stockport before the gig,
you know, because we're-- you're just too close to it all.
So we wanted to-- we went away and went in the spa and stuff,
and sat in a Jacuzzi.
And then, we drove back in and just seeing the streets swarmed with people.
We love the Blossoms!
Being like a festival on the streets of Stockport.
We drove in, everyone was... we had to shut the roads to get the car in.
They closed the whole road off.
We did joke about it in the early days, we did say,
"Oh, imagine playing there."
Blink five years later and it's a reality.
Because we're still in the car like,
us five as mates from school and, you know, we're like, "This is mad."
'Cause you've grown up there, you pass it on the train when you go to Manchester.
Used to watch football games there, like.
It's literally the stuff of dreams. You could write it in a book
that you read in school
about starting a band, where they end up in a final scene, would be there.
Testament to, you know, the music and what we've created.
And that we weren't mad from the start.
♪ Hold me tight and watch me fall ♪
One of the first ever gigs was at the bungalow.
Little place just behind the stage there,
30, 40 people after the game on a Saturday.
-Yeah, totally. -And look where they are now.
Now, how do we top that?
[Tom] When the sun started to go down,
it was darker and you could feel everyone was having a great time.
The bar's there now.
We've got to get to, like, there.
I didn't want it to end.
Now, as you can imagine, this is quite surreal for us five.
Because we grew up just over there.
Some of us from Atherton...
some of us from Woods Moor...
and some more from Atherton.
[crowd cheering]
And you've truly made our fucking life tonight, everyone, so.
I wrote that song in the back room.
I want to know if you've got room for one more song.
We got a record deal off that.
I said, have you got room for one more song, Stockport?
To then, play it in front of all them people,
they are the moments that you're living for.
And you know the crowd are just going to go fucking mad.
["Charlemagne" by Blossoms]
Come on.
♪ Hello, hello ♪
♪ Who put love in my head? ♪
♪ I know, I know it's made of lead ♪
♪ Hello, hello ♪
♪ Science came, a kingdom reigned ♪
♪ Below, below my Charlemagne ♪
♪ And the river always flows so if you go, I will know ♪
♪ By the rain, my Charlemagne ♪
♪ Hello, hello ♪
♪ My eyes tried, hide, cried, died ♪
♪ Inside the snow in the winter ♪
♪ Hello, hello ♪
♪ The doctors knew, prescribe me you ♪
♪ Below, below the amber sky ♪
♪ And the river always flows so if you go, I will know ♪
♪ By the rain, my Charlemagne ♪
♪ And the river always flows tears of gold ♪
♪ Left me cold, do you feel the same, my Charlemagne ♪
♪ My Charlemagne, my Charlemagne ♪
♪ Don't go ♪
♪ If only I could show you ♪
♪ Don't go ♪
♪ If only I could show you ♪
♪ But don't go ♪
♪ If only I could show you ♪
♪ Don't go ♪
♪ If only I could show you ♪
[audience sings along]
♪ By the rain, my Charlemagne ♪
[audience cheering]
♪ And the river always flows so if you go, I will know ♪
♪ By the rain, my Charlemagne ♪
♪ And the river always flows tears of gold ♪
♪ Left me cold, do you feel the same my Charlemagne ♪
♪ Charlemagne ♪
[audience cheering]
Thank you very much, everyone.
[audience cheering]
["The Keeper" by Blossoms]
Thank you very much, Stockport.
See you guys soon.
Cheers, mate. Nice one.
-So good. -It's unreal.
[excited chattering]
It's got to my head already.
-Jody! -Hey.
Do you know where the kettle is?
["The Keeper" by Blossoms]