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OUT @ The Festivals: Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris plays Summadayze at the Esplanade and Supreme Court Gardens on January 4

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Getting on the bill? I was in Australia this time last year doing another festival and they asked me and I said yes. It’s good to be in Australia when it’s really sunny and it’s really cold over here (in Scotland).

Other Summadayze acts you want to see? Underworld.

Best festival story? There was a tremendous thing that happened when we played an Irish festival last year called Oxygen…. I’m on stage and I was doing Girls… or one of the big ones anyway. It’s a big tent we’re in about 5000 people and I was just doing my thing and then somebody threw a banana from about the middle of the tent. It would have been a distance of maybe 500 yards. Anyway, this banana came hurtling toward me and I don’t know how but I caught the banana, I peeled the banana and I ate the banana – took a bite out of it and threw it back into the crowd. It was a tremendous moment for everyone involved. Only a few people saw it and those that did were well impressed. I’ve got to say, I was impressed myself.

Favourite festival? I like the Scottish festivals. They just take you to the next level of everything – of dancing, of getting drunk, of being rowdy. They’ve just got this Scottish spirit that shines through.

Dream festival? I’d hold it in my small home town of Dumfries in Scotland in the big park there and I’d probably bring Outkast and Prince… but only if he agreed not to do that cover of the Radiohead song he did at Coachella. I didn’t like that song. In fact I’d write that into the contract.

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