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Becky Hill has addressed being booed by some audience members during a surprise set at TRNSMT.
A TikTok video from the weekend showed sections of the crowd leaving while others booed when the singer revealed she would be performing an entire set of unreleased music.
The booing unfolded during Hill’s appearance as TRNSMT’s secret act on the King Tut’s stage on Friday.
When she took to the stage, Hill told fans that she decided to keep her performance under wraps because she wanted to play a set of new tracks.
But the announcement did not go down well with the crowd in Glasgow, with many booing.
The 32-year-old has now addressed the response in a video posted to her Instagram. In the clip, she shared a video taken moments after she came off stage, in which she told the camera: ‘Getting booed is not nice.
‘I haven’t found a single one of these easy, which is really upsetting because I love this job. And that’s not making me love it as much as I usually do.’
Speaking directly to camera to address what unfolded, Hill continued: ‘I’ve been told about the news articles and conversations happening online around my secret set on Friday.
‘I wanted to bring a new and exclusive 30-minute set of brand new music to a festival crowd. Unannounced. And I thought it would be a great opportunity to play the new music I’ve been working so hard on and I personally love so much.’
She went on to thank the organisers of TRNSMT, who gave her the secret set stage, as well as the crowd of people who stayed to the end.
When Hill closed her set, she treated the loyalists to two of her biggest hits, Afterglow and Disconnect, prompting cheers from those who stuck around.
She continued: ‘It was amazing to have such a captive audience who wanted to hear the new stuff too.
‘I said on stage how difficult it is to transition into a new single and new music and new albums.
‘All this conversation online is exactly what I meant.’
Hill added: ‘I’m not a jukebox. I’m an artist. The tickets to TRNSMT weren’t sold on my name being a part of the line-up.
‘I wanted to do something new and artistically driven. I don’t really get that opportunity to do that in my career often at all.’
Wrapping up the video, she promised her followers: ‘Trust me, when my name is on the poster, I’ll always sing the tunes that people know and love. I feel very grateful to have those records in my catalogue after 14 years of making them.
‘But for me to be able to have a long career, I need to have new music. So, thank you to all the people who stayed and danced,’ she said, signing off by saying she will see fans at shows in the future.