Maximo Park excited about Young

Maximo Park's Paul Smith said there is excitement growing in the camp for Neil Young's performance at Glastonbury.

The frontman revealed that Neil is an inspiration for the whole band except keyboard player Lukas Wooller "because he's more of a fan of German techno".

"Today (Friday) is a big day for me because I've never seen Neil Young play before, he is one of my favourite artists of all time," said Paul.

He continued: "One of my first records that I ever started listening to was After The Gold Rush that me mam had on vinyl, I was like, 'who is this guy with the whiney voice?' and it turns out I love that voice now and I love pretty much every period that he's ever been through, even the weirder ones where he was messing around with computers.

"You just think, 'this guy's a bit of a maverick'."

He added that Neil's eighth album Tonight's The Night is regularly played on the band's tour bus.

"It is probably one of our favourite records, it's got a spontaneous quality to it.

"He just seemed to record it in the middle of the night, whenever he was feeling excited about the songs.

"The fact is a lot of our favourite records were recorded in that spontaneous way where some of the mistakes are left in, you can probably hear it in our new record, it's a bit looser and people like Neil Young are kind of our inspiration behind that way of doing things."