We reflect on previous TRNSMTs as the festival returns to Glasgow Green for its 2025 edition

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With TRNSMT just next week, we look back on some of our interviews from previous years.

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00:00So, if you'd just like to introduce yourself.

00:02Hi, I'm Kyle Faulkner from The View.

00:04Hello, so we're here with Joseph who's just played his amazing set on the main stage.

00:08So, if you'd like to introduce yourself.

00:09What's happening? I'm Joseph. How you doing?

00:11So, how did you get into music, like when you were younger?

00:14I got beat up at golf clubs when I was in gangs.

00:19And then my brother-in-law bought us a guitar just trying to keep us in the house.

00:23And I love the Beatles and Michael Jackson and everything, just love music.

00:27And you are an East End boy at heart?

00:29Yes, if you can't tell already, I'm from the East End of Glasgow.

00:31I'm just up there, I think a family.

00:33How does it feel being back in Glasgow then?

00:35Glass. Love Glasgow.

00:37So, you've just done your set on the main stage.

00:39It was meant to be an opening act, but he's actually got moved up.

00:42So, tell me a wee bit about that. Who do we go to first?

00:44We paid Flo an inordinate amount of money just to move up the slot.

00:49Got to thank Flo, got to shout out Flo for really just being very cooperative with us.

00:55I really do believe in high-energy, high-octane performances.

01:00The kind of performances that, when you're in the audience, I like to try and transport people in the audience to somewhere that they're not.

01:07Somewhere a bit escapist, somewhere slightly unusual, where special things can happen.

01:12What are some of your favourite venues to perform in here?

01:15Well, Barrowlands is everyone's favourite venue around the world.

01:21We've just done the Academy, we've done the Hydro, but Barrowlands is the classiest.

01:27I mean, back in the day we used to play in small places, I can't remember what they were called, but they were cool as well.

01:33So, tell me a wee bit about that, growing up in the East End.

01:36It was very, very vibrant. A lot of drama, a lot of hilarity.

01:42Never had a dull day in the old Gafamla at Piestelhus.

01:45It was a good time I enjoyed it, I loved growing up in the East End, it was class.

01:48You won't find funnier people anywhere else.

01:50Yeah. No, that's true.

01:51I always say this, but playing to a Glasgow audience is just so different than playing to an audience anywhere else in the world,

01:58because Glaswegians are just so rowdy and fun, and it's just the best shows.

02:04We played to the artist club on the hill before, that was pretty cool.

02:09But I remember those wee places on the river as well, there used to be the fly, bar fly or something.

02:14That was pretty cool, but Barrowlands, man.

02:18Totally up for it, and because it's a hometown show, there's friends and family and folk who know you,

02:23know your songs properly and all that.

02:25It adds to the whole experience.

02:27Yeah, absolutely.

02:28Definitely.

02:29No, we were very glad.

02:31One, because it got a band that we also loved Dead Pony on in the main stage as well,

02:35and two, because we got to have a little bit of breathing room between people coming in through the gate and coming to see us.

02:43So, ending up the crowd was brilliant, man. We were really, really buzzing with the crowd.

02:46We loved it. We were really happy.

02:47What part of Glasgow are you from?

02:49I'm from Maryhill, repping the Maryhill gals, but I now live in the south side.

02:54I'm from Sims Hill, and I now live in Queen's Park.

02:58Nice. Very good.

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