Getting to perform on Later with Jools Holland has become a rite of passage for many music acts.
So when Blossoms got the call, on frontman Tom Ogden's birthday, he says it was the best present he could have got.
"It was amazing," he told Newsbeat on the beach in Brighton for the Great Escape Festival.
"It is just one of those mad experiences that we joked about since rehearsing back home three years ago."
The band are in good spirits after spending the night on their tour bus and waking up by the sea.
Tom Ogden sings, plays the guitar and also the tambourine
They are in East Sussex to play a number of shows at what they describe as the UK's "answer to SXSW".
"There are just loads of bands on, so there is obviously loads of people who can help you," Tom explains about The Great Escape.
"When you are on the rise, to get on these kind of shows, it is just dead important."
And Blossoms are definitely a band on the rise. Playing Jools Holland is just another big step along that road.
"It was surreal being there but at the same time we felt like we deserved to be on there," Tom says.
Charlie Salt is the band's bassist and also provides backing vocals
"It's nice to get your music out there to all the people who watch it. It's one of them to tick off the list and be like, 'Yeah. I've done Jools Holland.'"
They were on the bill with a few of their heroes too including Iggy Pop's new supergroup.
That's made up of Iggy himself, Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) and Dean Fertitia (Queens of The Stone Age, The Dead Weather).
Iggy performed on Later with Jools Holland., external
"They were grooving to Charlemagne," laughs Tom.
"It was kind of putting me off because I was singing and my eyes were just wandering over to them every time."
Josh Homme likes playing in other people's bands - a lot
They also got to interact with their heroes too.
"He offered me Haribo which was pretty mad," bassist Charlie Salt says of his encounter with Josh Homme.
"Then I said, 'Have you ever been told you look like Damian Lewis from Homeland?'"
Brave move.
"I think he got a little bit offended and then he just said, 'You think all gingers look the same.'"
Joe Donovan is the man on drums
But there were no hard feelings, as during the break, he told Blossoms that they were "awesome".
Quite the compliment from one of the world's most loved rock stars.
It was also Josh Homme's birthday when they filmed the show, so the lads from Stockport gave him a few gifts.
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"Yeah [we gave him] an 'I Love Stockport' T-shirt and some beers from Stockport too," Tom says.
"He probably left it in the dressing room, but you might see him on a world tour somewhere wearing it."
Blossoms play the Vevo stage at Wagner Hall at The Great Escape on Friday.
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