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people want to come in and try my cheese as well as listen to Parklife. “That is really important. I think it’s really good that I’ve got something else to talk about. “You have to do it otherwise you become this weird, grotesque caricature of yourself by the time you get old like Mick Jagger.” Coming up for air, he continues: “I’ve been listening to the Rolling Stones recently, but I wouldn’t f ****** go and listen to them live, f ****** hell. “You can’t be Jumping Jack when you are 70 f ****** 8.” Alex is now the proud organiser and founder of The Big Feastival. But one performer he wasn’t impressed with was RNB star
Jagger Alex pours scorn on Led Zeppelin
Kelis, 38, who had a global hit in 2003 with Milkshake. He reveals: “Kelis retrained as a cordon bleu chef and released a cookery book.
“So great, we’ll have her. And she didn’t f ****** do Milkshake. She’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t do that any more’. It’s like, ‘For f **** sake, it’s not like you’ve got loads of hits, darling, you need to do that one’. So I wouldn’t have her back.”
The Big Feastival, an annual food and music festival, will be celebrating its seventh anniversary at Alex’s farm in the Cotswolds on Bank Holiday weekend – August 24–26
“To start writing a football song, get p **** d. Maybe have a few drugs too. Well, that worked the two times I did it. Those have been the two elements present when I’ve been there. And also not caring – you mustn’t care.” It’s a tiring business being a superstar. And 60-year-old
is making sure she gets a good night’s sleep by having her own mattress shipped with her on tour.
She is about to embark on her first comedy tour in 15 years and so far the one demand she has made is to sleep in her own bed.
An insider says: “It’s only a three-city tour but she’ll make sure her mattress is on the hotel bed where she’ll be sleeping. If she’s using a private jet to get between the venues, the mattress can go with her and the same goes for the bus.”
Hope she doesn’t do a bunk. Ellen wants own mattress