Interview - Dylan John Thomas

Dylan John Thomas is making up for lost time.

Within seconds of his conversation with Live4ever, with pleasantries out of the way, the young Scotsman’s enthusiasm and positivity radiates from the other end of the line as he recalls his hometown gig at St. Luke’s in Glasgow two days earlier:

‘It was absolutely bouncing. I can’t describe the buzz of looking out and seeing that many people bouncing. It’s my first Scottish headline tour as well, so it was the first time we embarked all round Scotland as the main act. It’s hard to describe and I’m getting a bit overwhelmed talking about it. People singing every word, it’s nuts.”

His short Scotland tour was the latest during a busy period of live gigs Thomas has played since restrictions ended. The lockdown in spring 2020 came at a particularly cruel time, as his debut single ‘Nobody Else’ in 2019 had laid the foundations for a promising career, aided in no small part by prestigious slots supporting Liam Gallagher and, firstly, his mentor Gerry Cinnamon.

“We toured around the UK and Europe, which is nuts!,” he tells Live4ever. “I was building up an audience of my own, and still doing a bit of busking during that. I put out some demos and live sessions and it just happened organically, in the sense of being gradual. We’d go to a venue and two people would listen, but those two people would join in on the journey.”

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