Paul Weller has recalled the “horrible” experience of filming the Band Aid video, claiming that some artists were taking drugs in the toilets throughout.
Speaking in a recent Q&A session (via Contact Music), Weller said: “[The video shoot] was horrible. Everyone was getting off doing blow in the toilets.
“It probably would have been all right for me in the ’90s but I wasn’t into all that then. I was totally out of my comfort zone.”
The official video for ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ comprises footage of the featured artists recording their respective parts for the single at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London.
Weller’s comments come after he recently opened up about his 11 years of sobriety, explaining that he “gets more from music” now he has quit drinking.
“Now, when I look back to before I stopped, from the 00s onwards, I just think: ‘Christ, the state of me’,” he said. “I looked a lot older, a bit puffy, and red… just wrong.”