Episode 96 - Trey Lewis Interview

So to start with, I would love to discuss our trip to Paris.

Out of all places to go and see Luke Combs, it definitely wasn't on our bingo card this year.

We got invited down via Sony Music to go out to Paris.

Luke Combs was on the Tuesday night.

we left Newcastle on the Monday, flew to Paris, spent the whole day down in Paris, down by like the Eiffel Tower, doing your touristy things and having a look around.

But then Tuesday came and it was the day of the concert.

And one thing that did strike us from the moment we stepped into the airport in Newcastle to getting onto the plane, to arriving in Paris airport and getting on the train to the city centre was, was how many country music fans there were.

So on a flight that might hold, I don't know, 150 people, at least 50 people on that flight were definitely going to see Luke Combs.

We've seen Luke Combs t-shirts, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, people talking about Luke Combs.

And yeah, that was just fantastic, especially from our hometown.

Seeing that many people go across to Paris to see them.

When we were in Paris, there was so much, so many people that were going there that we had bumped into.

And again, you can just tell when someone's going to a country music concert, especially in the heart of Paris, because you don't really see many cowboy boots there.

around there as well so that was fantastic to see um so we headed across and to the arena on tuesday and it was at the air court arena which is just a little out of the city center it held 20 000 it's in a park it's beautiful um The arena is the same size as the O2 in London, but it definitely feels a bit smaller when you're inside.

Like I say, it was beautiful.

It's a very well-run venue.

We got down there, and once again, something that struck us was the amount of English people that were there.

There must have been about 70% of that 20,000 were from the United Kingdom.

We heard a few American accents, bumped into a few Americans.

There was plenty of Irish.

So it was just like being at a concert in the UK.

but it's brilliant to see places like Paris, places like Sweden, where Luke had performed earlier on in the week, getting like 65,000 people in Sweden, 20,000 in Paris, and God knows how many people he's going to have in the UK.

But that just goes to show how big country music is getting and how big Luke Combs is.

So we wanted to get down early because we're huge fans of the Costellos and they were the first support act that were supporting Lukums.

So the Costellos came on stage.