Sam Smith was fuming after their performance at the Brit Awards was almost cancelled following a technical malfunction.
Close sources reported that the singer’s anger was heightened backstage at London’s O2 Arena when their $870,000 (NZ$1.37 million) set, which included various cars, experienced a glitch and caused a delay.
Insiders revealed tempers were hot while the backstage crew desperately tried to fix the issue.
Event organisers covertly moved Stormzy’s set to earlier in the show to hide the problem.
Then, adding to the confusion of millions of watchers, they played a video montage of Adele to buy more time for the backstage staff, who were reconstructing Smith’s set for their performance of Unholy with Kim Petras.