Dubious piss-taker Lee Nelson has explained how he gatecrashed Kanye West’s headline slot at Glastonbury in June.

His stunt, which appeared in the live TV broadcast from the festival, involved little more than confidence and a microphone from Argos, he told the Telegraph.

“I got turned away a couple of times from the stage,” said Nelson, whose real name is Simon Brodkin. “It’s never easy. There’s a sort of golden zone where you are just not meant to be. The security ups a level. One time I just got ushered away by this woman who thought I was in the wrong place. But I kept at it. I went downstairs and suddenly I was in the hospitality area – Pharrell [Williams] was there, but there wasn’t time to chat.

“I went in to the toilets, psyched myself up, got my game face on and went for it. A guy said, ‘Where’s your ID?’ I said, ‘I’m meant to be ON STAGE, mate.’ He went, ‘Oh, sorry.’ I went up and there was the same woman who’d ushered me away moments earlier, but because I’d got through to this point and I was bouncing and had the mic she let me go on.”

Seemingly in an act of cosmic retribution, the tables were turned 45 minutes later when Brodkin was refused entry to the cabaret tent where he was scheduled to perform a stand-up set. “I didn’t have the laminate,” he says. “They made me get the management to get into my own gig.”

Still, he’s gone some way to making up for the whole fiasco with this: