Hurts "intimidated" by tour support act

Hurts have revealed they are intimidated by an opera singer featured on their tour.

The group, who recently completed the UK leg of their European jaunt, admitted that they are nervous around a tenor singer they hired for a number of their performances because of his stage presence and emotional voice

"He can sing more emotionally than I can. And he's an intimidating man to have onstage. He looks like our bodyguard," Theo Hutchcraft told NME.

The group also revealed that they ask for pictures of local women to be hung in their tour dressing rooms, adding: "That's true. We try to get as many as we can. In Amsterdam there were about 20. They're specifically not pornographic pictures. Just pictures of beautiful women like Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford and Agyness Deyn.

"We had an A3 picture of someone's nan. I was like, 'What's this?' They went, 'Do you not think she's beautiful?' I went, 'She is! I don't want to offend your Nan!'"

Hurts are due to play a concert date in Paris later today, before heading to Spain and Portugal.