My Saturday

Gavin Rossdale

The frontman for the rock band Bush, 54, on Saturdays in LA playing sport, Facetiming family and keeping three boisterous sons in check

6am I have three boys [Kingston, 14, Zuma, 12, and Apollo, six, with his ex-wife, the singer Gwen Stefani] who stay with me half the time, so I always wake up at six. I check my emails, because once the boys are up, I go from being a voracious reader of news to Nutella spreader. I have an Illy coffee with heated milk and a breakfast burrito – scrambled eggs, bacon or chorizo, coriander and hot sauce. 9am I like tennis, and I have a coach that I play with. I take the boys and the youngest gets the first half an hour, the older two get the next hour, and then we all get on. 11am We go swimming in our pool. It lasts about 25 minutes before someone punches someone else in the face. In general, it [lockdown] has been incredible. I did [homeschooling] in the first week. It was assignment-based, which was a nightmare... I patrolled the hallway like a teacher.

1pm There’s a bakery down the road where they make proper baguettes, so we have those for lunch. And I devised a book club where we read for an hour every day. It’s a time where we just stop

– no electronics, although we don’t always succeed. 2pm We also have a table tennis table. Apollo has the most fun whacking the balls off the side, so I need to get some new ones. 4pm Facetime is the most incredible thing. I have Daisy [Gavin’s 31-year-old daughter with the designer Pearl Lowe] and my mum to call. Mum lives outside of London with her husband, but has found lockdown really taxing – so it’s good to ring and have a laugh. 7pm My dinners are always elaborate, whether it’s courgettes in turmeric or a white-bean and tuna salad, and most of the time we can eat outside.

8pm Everyone spreads to their own corner [of the house], and then we watch a film. Last Saturday, it was the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – they loved it.

10pm I make them go to bed at 10pm, though they’re fighting it. My life is split in two, my single life and my parent life – my tour lifestyle is a different story... Lockdown is the first time, since 1994, that I haven’t had a travel schedule imminent. It’s been bizarre.

Bush’s new album The Kingdom is out now on BMG