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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Ellen Kirwin & Catherine Murphy

Lewis Capaldi labels Scouser he met his 'f***ing hero'

All eyes were on Croxteth Park yesterday as Lewis Capaldi performed a sold out show in Liverpool for the first time.

Before he took to the stage, the ECHO sat down with the Hold Me While You Wait singer to discuss the album, his shock at never being to Liverpool before and his reaction to an honest scouser.

When asked to give us his best scouse accent, the self-appointed 'Scottish Beyonce' told our reporters about a scouse lad he had met earlier in the day, recalling the moment he was honestly told his autographs were going to be sold.

He said: "A guy came up outside and he came up with a big stack of paper for me to sign.

"When people come up with a stack of paper they're going to sell them but noone ever owns up to it.

"He goes ‘Lewis would you come down here and sign this’ and I went alright cool.

 "I saw he had a big stack of paper and I kind of went for God's sake here we go and I usually just sign like two of them and say that’s enough mate but he went like that ... ‘I’m going to sell them’ so I was like right fair play and I kept going.

"I was like you're a f***** hero. So I signed all of them."

Lewis Capaldi was performing songs from his debut album Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent accompanied by a full orchestra in a show organised by BBC Radio 1.

Watch the clip of our interview above.

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