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hands, on their CD players, in their iPhones, so I feel this beautiful loss of control.”
Now the hard work really begins.
“For the next four weeks, I literally cannot do anything I want to do.
“That lack of freedom’s jarring because for years I had nothing but (doing what I want) – but most other people who do normal jobs don’t have the freedom to just f **k off for extended periods and do what they want.
“Everyone has obligations, everyone has commitments. Getting back into it, it’s like coming back to the first day of school.”
This time, it all starts in Dundee. “I’m just glad to be a part of the Big Weekend, let alone headlining,” Capaldi says.
“I mean, the Jonas Brothers might take a look at the line-up and say: ‘Why the f**k is Lewis Capaldi ahead of us?’ This is the only country in the world where that would happen, so I feel an enormous sense of hometown pride.”
He asks if I remember the old Doghouse in Dundee.
“I played there once and I remember coming up from West Lothian to see The View on a bus, I must have been 15, 16 at the time.
“Me, Mark Sharp & The Bicycle Thieves, maybe some of The Snuts boys, we all piled on, bottle in hand, and charged up here – I have fond memories of that, we did it a few times, it was f ***** g class.
“Basically, my memories of Dundee are getting p **** d, that’s it.”
At time of writing, the new album is outselling the rest of the top 20 combined.
All that hard work is already paying off.
≤ Lewis Capaldi plays BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2023 at Camperdown Park, Dundee, on Sunday, May 28. His second album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, is out now.