In an alternate universe, one wherein Glaswegian artwork faculty pupil Peter Capaldi realised his teenage ambition of changing into a punk rock anti-hero together with his David Bowie / Speaking Heads-influenced band The Dreamboys in 1977, the world may need tragically disadvantaged of one of many biggest characters ever to grace British tv screens, the foul-mouthed, short-tempered and largely terrifying spin physician Malcolm Tucker who stole each scene written for him in Armando Iannucci’s good BBC political satire The Thick Of It. Oh, and the twelfth incarnation of time lord Physician Who would have seemed and acted relatively otherwise too.
However Capaldi’s massively profitable and much-acclaimed performing profession did not fully erase his musical aspirations, and earlier this 12 months the 67-year-old star launched his second album, Candy Illusions, the follow-up to his 2021 debut report St Christopher.
Final evening, July 29, the actor performed his first ever solo headline present, and as an sudden deal with for these packed into Glasgow’s Stereo membership, he threw in a relatively respectable cowl of The Remedy‘s 1992 hit single Friday I am In Love.
Watch him channel his inside Robert Smith under.
Oh and did I point out Peter Capaldi closed yesterday’s gig with a canopy of The Remedy’s “Friday I’m In Love”? pic.twitter.com/wORvikeENpJuly 29, 2025
The Remedy’s chief Robert Smith revealed a shock of his personal final month when he joined US singer-songwriter celebrity Olivia Rodrigo onstage throughout her headline set at Glastonbury pageant on June 29 for a collaborative efficiency of Friday I am In Love, and an abbreviated Simply Like Heaven.
You’ll be able to decide for your self how the duets stacked up in opposition to Capaldi’s cowl.
Reflecting on his short-lived and ill-fated punk rock previous in an April interview with The Guardian, a relaxed Capaldi expressed no regrets on the hand life has dealt him.
“We tried and tried however we weren’t getting wherever,” he admitted. “Ultimately you run out of steam as a result of you don’t have any cash and also you’re consuming Pot Noodles on Christmas Day. It appeared like everyone else in Glasgow was getting signed or doing a Peel Session and we weren’t. I’d get the coach right down to London and go spherical all of the report labels however nothing ever occurred.”
