If you’re anything like me, you like to think that rock stars spend their time pre- and post-performance shagging quail’s eggs and bathing in champagne. If you’re not anything like me - congratulations.
Rider demands of musicians have become a staple for newspapers, and with handy sites like The Smoking Gun only too willing to expose stars’ outlandish demands, there’s usually plenty out there to gasp / laugh / vomit at.

This weekend Joss Stone and The Who will perform at Merseyside’s new addition to the festival circuit, Knowsley Hall. The Sun reports that Joss requires, among eleven pages of demands, de-thorned roses and Miracle Whip. They don’t appear to be suggesting that Joss snacks on flowers and American mayonnaise substitute, which to me seems like a missed opportunity. To be honest if those are the most outrageous demands in the eleven pages, it must be pretty dull.
The Who, on the other hand, have kept it simple - and requested one hundred bath towels. Those old men must be planning on getting very dirty indeed.
And apparently Aerosmith (headlining Hyde Park Calling this weekend) wanting to eat chicken is news, as well. Come on, where are the armoured vehicles?? Where are the oxygen tank demands?? I demand higher quality dirt.

Possibly related:

1. Someone’s Had The Stylists In - Joss Stone

2. Hard Rock Cafe presents Hyde Park Calling: Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel and Crowded House headline

3. Hyde Park Calling “reviews” - were Aerosmith and Crowded House the only bands there?

4. I Don’t Like Them As Much As I’m Supposed To: The Stone Roses

5. Death Cab For Cutie cover The Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored”

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Posted by sophiebruce on Friday June 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm