{"id":298266,"date":"2026-02-14T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:05:10","slug":"kylie-minogue-natalie-imbruglia-and-sinead-oconnor-in-wigs-to-do-backing-vocals-brian-eno-on-an-omnichord-dave-stewart-recalls-a-bonkers-late-90s-tfi-friday-appe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298266\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Sinead O\u2019Connor in wigs to do backing vocals\u2026 Brian Eno on an Omnichord\u201d: Dave Stewart recalls a bonkers late-’90s TFI Friday appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Stewart of Eurythmics\u2019 fame (not the other one) has appeared on Chris Evans Virgin Breakfast show, reflecting on a late-’90s appearance on the host\u2019s previous vehicle TFI Friday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remember I did this really mad thing once,\u201d he began. \u201cI decided to dye my hair white, wear glasses similar to yours (Evans\u2019), wear all the wrong kind of clothes like a chequered shirt and stripy jacket and everything f***ed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were hiding in a dressing room across the road to TFI Friday and I had Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Sinead O\u2019Connor in wigs to do backing vocals, but we didn\u2019t say who they were. I looked nuts and I was singing a song that was nuts, calling Happy To Be Here. And then Brian Eno playing Omnichord\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I just watched it on Youtube<\/a> and I was like \u2018what a nutcase I was\u2026 well, I still am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well… we\u2019ve long known that Stewart is a wee bit eccentric. Now 73, he revealed that unlike most old-age pensioners, he\u2019s something of a night owl. \u201cI had to stay up all night to be up at this time,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI just never seem to get to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning. So today \u2013 or tonight or whatever it is \u2013 I thought I\u2019d just f***\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the first of three F bombs that the guitarist proceeded to drop in the first three minutes.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the interview sees Stewart ramble on about AI, Visa cards and the early days of the Eurythmics when he and Annie Lennox had to borrow \u00a35000 from their local branch of Barclays to record their first album \u2013 \u201cThe bank manager did look a bit worried about the two of us because we did look a bit eccentric.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was always doing wonky ideas to make us think differently,\u201d he explains, before recalling the time when they painted a cow purple for the Sweet Dreams video: \u201cIn the video Annie and I are singing and then a cow walks in and at one point the cow is staring at me and it just turns purple.”<\/p>\n

” I was just imagining people in the middle of America seeing us two \u2013 Annie with her cropped hair and me looking like a nut on a wooden computer and a cow wandering around a boardroom\u2026 but evidently they liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Stewart of Eurythmics\u2019 fame (not the other one) has appeared on Chris Evans Virgin Breakfast show, reflecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-298266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}