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Daily Mirror
4 days ago
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- Daily Mirror
Rod Stewart only needs two things for pre-show ritual on his Glastonbury rider
Rod Stewart is gearing up for Glastonbury and insists he will not need a fuss backstage and a basic rider will do Rod Stewart has insisted he only needs two items on his rider for Glastonbury Festival to keep him happy. The 80-year-old singer will play the Sunday Legends slot at the festival later this month but insists other than flying back to the UK by private plane he will not have too many requests once he gets on site. Asked about his rider, Rod said: 'I looked at it the other day and I thought, what is all this s**t doing here? All I need is a few bottles of wine and some crisps, and that's it. 'And there's all these bloody things! What am I gonna do with them? No houmous, but big piles of bananas and apples! And when you think the whole world 's bloody starving. I gotta do something about that. Thank you for reminding me.' He also told the Radio Times in a new interview he gargles rum and coke before going on stage, something he never drinks any other time but has been doing as a ritual for 40 years. And he and his band also enjoy "the best after-gig party" with drinks and dancing. Asked what fans could expect from the Glasto show, Rod added: 'I'm really looking forward to it. And it is a different gig. It's like when you're playing a cup final: you're trying to treat it like another game. But, of course, it's not. It's special. 'It'll be glamorous, it'll be sexy. Not me – I'm talking about the other members of the group! And we've got a little orchestra coming on to play with us. And we may have some bagpipes…' In the build up to Glastonbury, Rod has also been speaking to Zoe Ball for a BBC Sounds podcast. In that interview he revealed how playing at Glastonbury is costing him a staggering £300,000. The star - who it's thought is being paid significantly less to perform in the Legends slot - said: 'It's actually cost me £300,000 to do the show because I've got to bring all the band back from America and I've got to take them all the way back to America.' He added to the Sidetracked podcast that he couldn't even get any free tickets, saying: 'Believe it or not, my kids, three of them, all bought their own tickets, because Glastonbury give nothing away. asks me for tickets. All the time. Everywhere. People just come out of the woodwork. 'Oh, you haven't spoken to me for 25 years. Any chance I could have a ticket?'' One friend who will be at the festival is Ronnie Wood, as he and Rod played together in the Faces and is going to join him on stage. His comments come after he was forced to cancel a series of shows, including those at his Las Vegas residency, as he was ill. Rod also opened up about his 80th birthday celebrations with his family. He told Zoe Ball: "I love a shindig - we had a 280ft yacht - I think it was I rented out for 10 days for all my kids and their kids and their husbands, 16 of us all together, and it cost me a fortune, but you can't take it with me." He said he wasn't easy to buy presents for unless it was "from the model railway then I am very happy." Rod previously spent time onboard a luxury 197ft, £274,000-a-week yacht in Italy in summer 2022. But for his big birthday he went one better and set sail on a 288ft vessel which features nine suites for guests, as well as a beauty salon, a gym, a Hammam, a swimming pool and a helipad. Rod, who has eight children by five women, was also photographed watching his beloved Celtic on a laptop on the boat, as nothing will get between him and his football team. The party continued on dry land too, including an evening at La Guérite Beach in St Barths. His son Sean Stewart, 44, is part of the travelling group along with his girlfriend Julia Stambler. Rod's daughter's Ruby, 37, and Renee, 32, are onboard with their respective partners Jake Kalic and Adam Sumner, as well as Liam Stewart, 30, and his wife Nicole Artukovich, who is expecting their second child. Baby grandson's Otis and Louie, both one, were also on the trip.
Daily Mirror
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Loved-up Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster hold hands in Copenhagen as she joins his tour
Sir Rod Stewart was supported by his wife Penny Lancaster as he prepared for his tour in Copenhagen. The music icon, 80, donned a matching outfit with his Loose Women star wife, 54, in a loved up snap. They were reunited with each other once again as they enjoyed their home comforts at the Hotel d'Angleterre in the Danish capital. Both Rod and Penny sipped on their drinks in the stunning location as they lovingly held hands. Rod rocked a thick cream jumper with grey chinos at the five-star hotel as he added high-top white trainers and a silver chain bracelet. Penny matched her rock star husband was she wore a shirt in the same shade and kept her long blonde locks down. They both beamed at the camera as they proudly held hands while enjoying quality time together. Penny gushed: "Back out on tour - together again." Rod is due to take to the iconic Pyramid stage at the 2025 Glastonbury festival in the traditional Sunday Legends slot later this year. In a statement at the time of his announcement, he said: 'I'm proud, ready and more than able to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June.' However, he later revealed performing at the music festival would cost him a huge amount of money - but he insisted it was worth it in order to play to fans on Worthy Farm. Appearing on TALKSport last November he said: 'It's a great honour.' However, he admitted: 'It's going to cost me a fortune to do it – $300,0000 (£236,832).' Explaining the huge financial cost, Rod added: 'I've got to bring all my band back from America, of course Glastonbury don't pay for that. 'But I don't care if it cost me $1million (£789,440), I would have done it. This is a great honour. It really is the greatest honour.' Rod is also heading out on a world tour this year, which kicks off in Dortmund, Germany on Saturday. It will be a mammoth seven-month trip across the world as he performs in Europe, North America and South America. Penny will be on hand to support the rocker, as she recently opened up on their home life together. Rod is the father to eight children: Sarah, Kimberly, Sean, Ruby, Renee, Liam, Alastair Wallace, and Aiden Patrick, from relationships with five women: Susannah Boffey, Alana Stewart, Rachel Hunter, and his spouse Penny herself. During a heart-to-heart with Coleen Nolan on Loose Women: The Podcast, Penny discussed her and the 'Maggie May' hitmaker's extended clan. She admitted her uncertainty about "what it would be like" amid a "divorce situation" when your kids go off on holiday with a "new wife." Penny said: "There's five mothers, so it's a bit blended." She later added: "I really did take into account what it must be like for the mother when I was around Rod [Stewart's] children. "Liam and Renee, Liam was just five and Renee was seven. So, still quite young and impressionable and I could only imagine how difficult it was for those children to have their parents divorced, let alone to have another woman around." She added: "I guess I just wanted them to see that dad was happy, and if I was the person that was making dad happy and dad still communicated with mum and they still made the big decisions about things, it was a case of just tiptoeing."
