Lewis Capaldi spotted backstage at TRNSMT

The Scottish singer was watching headliners The 1975 on Sunday night.

Author: Callum McQuadePublished 10th Jul 2023

Lewis Capaldi was spotted backstage at TRNSMT last night watching headliners The 1975 rounding up this year's festival on Glasgow Green.

Frontman Matty Healy told the crowd the Someone You Loved star was backstage.

Lewis recently announced he is taking a break from performing to focus on his physical and mental health.

He was also spotted in the crowds at LF Soundsystem on the King Tut's stage on Saturday evening.

Healy revealed that his band, which formed in 2002, will replace Capaldi as the headliner at the Reading and Leeds festival.

He said: "Film this because I'm not going to do an Instagram post, I'm not on the social media anymore, so people know.

"So, on Saturday at Reading and Sunday at Leeds in celebration of 10 years of our debut album The 1975, we will be playing that album in full in support of our good friend Lewis Capaldi."

Rock duo Royal Blood and pop star Becky Hill played the main stage before The 1975.

And on the King Tut's stage, The Enemy frontman Tom Clarke told the audience where he bought his first guitar.

He said: "About 15 years ago, we were playing at the Barrowlands over there and after sound check, I went to the Barrowlands market and I bought this guitar."

Trnsmt replaced the T in the Park festival in 2017 after its demise left a gap in the Scottish music calendar for the second weekend in July.

Around 50,000 people attended on each day of the three-day music extravaganza.

On Sunday, Police Scotland confirmed there had been 14 arrests over the first two days.

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