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Simon Brodkin, AKA 'comedian' Lee Nelson, has explained how he managed to gatecrash Kanye West's headline slot at Glastonbury, using a microphone he'd bought from Argos.
West had just begun performing 'Black Skinhead' during his much-anticipated festival set when Nelson - who is the comedy alter-ego of Simon Brodkin - ran onstage holding a microphone and wearing a 'Leezus' t-shirt. After spotting Nelson behind him, West stopped rapping and threw his arms up in confusion/frustration.
A security guard promptly followed Nelson onto the stage and firmly escorted him away, before West said simply, "Start over" and began the song again.
Some people were saying Kanye shouldn't headline Glastonbury so I thought I'd give him a hand. pic.twitter.com/7KFk2kgjsM
— Lee Nelson (@RealLeeNelson) June 27, 2015
Watch Lee Nelson stage invade during Kanye West's Glastonbury set below
Speaking to The Telegraph about the incident, Brodkin described arriving at securing holding a microphone he'd bought from Argos the previous day. "I got turned away a couple of times from the stage," he said. "It’s never easy. There’s a sort of golden zone where you are just not meant to be."
He added, "The security ups a level. One time I just got ushered away by this woman who thought I was in the wrong place. But I kept at it. I went downstairs and suddenly I was in the hospitality area – Pharrell was there, but there wasn’t time to chat. I went in to the toilets, psyched myself up, got my game face on and went for it.
"A guy said, 'Where’s your ID?' I said, 'I'm meant to be ON STAGE, mate.' He went, 'Oh, sorry.' I went up and there was the same woman who’d ushered me away moments earlier, but because I’d got through to this point and I was bouncing and had the mic she let me go on."
Brodkin/Nelson subsequently made headlines for gatecrashing a FIFA press conference and showering Sepp Blatter with fake money.
