Lord Buckethead made an appearance at Glastonbury Festival on Friday.
Greeted by chants of his name, the former aspiring MP began: “Good evening Glastonbury! Are you having a good time? I am Lord Buckethead, intergalactic space lord.”
He then helpfully clarified: “I am not Lorde the New Zealand songstress,” before going on to reference Labour leader Jeremy’s Corbyn’s widely-publicised slot as a guest speaker at Glastonbury on Saturday.
“I thought to myself: why should the Pyramid stage be the only stage to receive a guest appearance from a political leader? The Park Stage should have one too! So here I am,” he explained, before revealing the “truth” behind his recent political tussle with the current Prime Minister.
“Now, it is only two weeks ago that I faced Theresa May,” Buckethead reminded his audience, pausing to allow for a chorus of boos at May’s name. “In the battle of the Magnet Leisure Centre, Maidenhead.
“The mainstream media would have you believe that she defeated me. Thirty-seven thousand votes to 249.”
In fact, Buckethead said, he had won the election, but had knowingly taken the better deal: instead of facing “agonising” Brexit negotiations in Brussels, he was free to attend Glastonbury.
Speaking to the Guardian after his appearance he gave some thoughts on how Brexit negotiations have been going.
“Could a slightly mouldy pain au chocolat negotiate Brexit better than Theresa May and David Davis? Yes. So yes I could, but whether I should is another matter.”
Asked what advice he would give May and Davis for Brexit, he said: “Be sophisticated, the Europeans are a smart bunch.
“There was a photograph the other day of the negotiating team from Great Britain and the negotiating team from Europe and the team from Europe looked so much smarter, they looked smarter sartorially, intellectually, and they had women, which is something British diplomats seem to have forgotten.”