Posted 6 years ago by Snizl for The Bodega
Skinny Living LIVE at The Bodega
Event Dates
6:00pm, Thu Oct 26th
9:00pm, Thu Oct 26th
About this Event
“I’ve definitely lived. If we sound much older than we are it’s because we have done the rounds, but just in different fields of life” – Ryan Johnston, Skinny Living.
A couple of years ago, when Ryan Johnston was still struggling in the latest of many day jobs, the boss took the Skinny Living singer to one side and told him to focus on his work instead of this “music nonsense” and to “stop thinking he was going to be the next Eric Clapton!”
“I thought, “I don’t want to be the next Eric Clapton,” the young Northern Irishman remembers. “I don’t even play guitar! I left the job and things started to happen for us. If it looks like it happened very quickly, that’s because we’ve put everything into this.”
Today, neither the Belfast-born singer nor the West Yorkshire-based band he fronts have had much time for glancing backwards. They’ve sold out venues across the country, landed a plum support slot with Jake Bugg at Leeds Arena (after a search for local talent) played festivals from The Secret Garden Party to the legendary Isle Of Wight and now landed a contract with RCA Victor, the label synonymous with David Bowie. In recent months, they’ve toured in the Philippines (where the locals had taken photos of the band from the internet and made them into huge posters), worked with some of the UK’s top producers and songwriters and are about to play to 65,000 Justin Bieber fans when they support the US star in Hyde Park.
A couple of years ago, when Ryan Johnston was still struggling in the latest of many day jobs, the boss took the Skinny Living singer to one side and told him to focus on his work instead of this “music nonsense” and to “stop thinking he was going to be the next Eric Clapton!”
“I thought, “I don’t want to be the next Eric Clapton,” the young Northern Irishman remembers. “I don’t even play guitar! I left the job and things started to happen for us. If it looks like it happened very quickly, that’s because we’ve put everything into this.”
Today, neither the Belfast-born singer nor the West Yorkshire-based band he fronts have had much time for glancing backwards. They’ve sold out venues across the country, landed a plum support slot with Jake Bugg at Leeds Arena (after a search for local talent) played festivals from The Secret Garden Party to the legendary Isle Of Wight and now landed a contract with RCA Victor, the label synonymous with David Bowie. In recent months, they’ve toured in the Philippines (where the locals had taken photos of the band from the internet and made them into huge posters), worked with some of the UK’s top producers and songwriters and are about to play to 65,000 Justin Bieber fans when they support the US star in Hyde Park.