Ed O'Brien on BBC Radio 6

Ed O'Brien talks to Steve Lamacq on the weekend Glastonbury should have happened, from home, having been knocked out by the virus himself. He knows exactly what he would have been doing at that hour, camping with friends and starting to think about the next day's show. He counts himself lucky to have played six shows before everything stopped, was supremely outside his comfort zone at all of them, and picks out a night at the Roundhouse where one song took off and gave him a taste of what it could be.

His record had come out during lockdown and reached the top 20, which he is amiably unbothered about.

At his first Glastonbury he was short of confidence and self-esteem and found the whole thing overwhelming. What saved it was sitting on the hill on the Saturday night watching the Cure, the perfect soundtrack to that kind of loneliness.