The National at Glastonbury 2024 on forming a supergroup with IDLES, Fontaines D.C. and Ed Sheeran

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00:00Hi, I'm Andrew Trundle, you're watching NME, and we're here at Glastonbury 2024 with The

00:11National.

00:12How are you doing, guys?

00:13Doing great, thanks for having us.

00:14What's the first thing you guys are going to do after the set tonight?

00:17I got a link to the Newfountains DC Records, have you heard it?

00:20Let's not talk about them right now.

00:22Yeah, so I'm going to go listen to that I think afterwards, and we spent a bunch of

00:27time with them and Idles and Ed Sheeran, we were all together.

00:30It was Ed, Idles, Fountains, and us, all backstage on buses, Ed's dad was there sleeping on the

00:38buses, it was like a caravan, and two or three nights in a row, two nights in a row in Germany,

00:44and we were all watching football and talking about, you know, travel and guilt and Jesuit

00:53backgrounds and all kinds of stuff.

00:56But yeah, so that was really fun, and we all watched each other's shows, and that was like

01:01kind of the best two-day festival run I've ever had.

01:04I was so inspired by everybody, and that was the first time I'd ever seen Ed Sheeran live,

01:11and Aaron knows him very well, so I was blown away by Ed Sheeran, and yeah, it was incredible.

01:18We're enjoying watching bands, we're enjoying being a band, it's all good.

01:22Super group with those guys?

01:24Yes.

01:25No, we did, we started one, it was, yeah, it's the guys with the pink hair from each

01:33band, and it's all the strawberry blondes, so it's Joe, Curly, Ed, and me, we're called

01:40the Strawberry Blondes.

01:41I would watch that.

01:42That would kind of be good, because Ed could play everything, you know, and Joe and I wouldn't

01:46have to do much at all, that'd be great.

01:50I would be the best of that band, yeah.

01:54Yeah, Curly and Ed would make the records, and Joe and I would dance.