Homeland star Damian Lewis celebrated a big day over the weekend – the discharge of his debut album, Mission Creep.
On the day his new report got here out, and in between filming his new vampire film The Radleys, the 52-year-old took to the stage to carry out at Black Deer Competition of Americana, held within the UK.
The Emmy winner instructed 9Honey after coming off stage at Eridge Park that his two youngsters are coming round to the thought of their dad as a rock star.
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“I feel they’re fairly liking it, now they’re getting used to it,” Lewis stated.
The actor shares daughter Manon, 16, and son Gulliver, 15, with the late actress Helen McCrory, who died in April 2021 after a battle with most cancers.
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Lewis revealed he grew up going to a lot of music festivals in “my younger 20s, after I began going with buddies” and enjoys now sharing the British summer time custom along with his youngsters.
“I have been to a number of completely different festivals and I adore it,” the musician stated.
“[I] take my youngsters to Latitude. There’s glamping methods of doing it and there is actual tenting methods of doing it – I will not inform you which one I favor however I can say I’ve performed each,” he laughed.
The British star added that he’d be thrilled if his new album introduced him Down Below, the place he says he’ll keep at his A Spy Amongst Buddies co-star’s home.
“Hell, why not? If I am invited,” Lewis stated when requested if he’ll tour Australia.
“Aussie followers, I really like you, purchase the report, I hope you prefer it and I will come and stick with my buddy Man Pearce after I come down.”
Lewis wasn’t the one actor among the many lengthy record of music heavyweights on the three-day pageant within the southeastern English countryside of Kent, which included a line-up that includes legends akin to The Pretenders, Bonnie Raitt and Steve Earle, together with Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson and Australian-born musicians The Teskey Brothers.
Home of the Dragon and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney additionally took to the stage along with his band, the six-piece outfit Sleep Strolling Animals.
The 28-year-old instructed 9Honey backstage on the pageant he is having fun with juggling his two inventive loves and is grateful he can convey his fanbase from one to the opposite.
“We’re simply grateful for the help, wherever it comes from,” Glynn-Carney stated.
“It is two very various things for me. The performing is one factor and music’s the opposite and so they’re each essential plates that I wish to spin in my life.”
“The way in which my schedule is working this yr is that there is a chunk of time the place I am filming after which there’s a great deal of time the place I am not and that will probably be extra music centered.
“It is necessary [to me] to map it out and type of carve out time for every one and to this point we have managed to make it work.”
Whereas a few of his bandmates joke concerning the “cool” perks and “a great deal of free drinks” that include having an actor within the band, others admire the fan base that is inbuilt as they proceed to be “extra experimental sonically”.
“Lots of people come and so they’ve seen Tom or they’ve seen Nuwan [Hugh Perera] in a West Finish present. They arrive for that originally after which they keep for the music and so they really love the music,” guitarist Joe Etherington stated.
One other outfit that may relate to that is Far From Saints.
The trio includes of Welshman Kelly Jones, from chart-topping band Stereophonics, along with The Wind and The Wave duo from Austin, Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker.
“I favored the truth that some individuals prefer it, some individuals do not prefer it,” Jones instructed 9Honey of the band’s sound, after coming off stage at Black Deer Competition.
“I feel it is a band in its personal proper. I do not assume it appears like me doing one thing over there with a bunch of different individuals, I feel it has been acquired that method.
“It does not sound like Wind and the Wave, it does not sound like Stereophonics, so I feel individuals who have a way of what I write about and the way I ship music will in all probability perceive it.
“I am actually pleased with these individuals who observe the music that I make, it is a privilege.”
The band’s debut and self-titled album, which additionally was launched the day they took to the pageant stage, was recorded in simply 9 days however took 4 years to launch.
“The report was type of [a] very, very spontaneous, wonderful time period,” Jones stated.
“And we completed all of it earlier than lockdown began after which lockdown type of put a pause on it.
“So to be doing these exhibits the final three/4 weeks main as much as the day, this really popping out, and enjoying exhibits if and when it will get within the charts and stuff, we’re all going to be collectively is very nice.”
For Baker, who has additionally written songs for Kelly Clarkson, he labels their efficiency on the report’s launch day as “tremendous cathartic”.
Whereas Lynn says the silver lining for her is that she’s not watching social media on the massive day.
“I really like that we’re enjoying a present on the discharge day as a result of then which means I am not sitting on my sofa, scrolling via Twitter and all of the feedback,” Lynn instructed 9Honey.
“I am simply doing what I do and I am having a good time and that is what it is all about.”
Far From Saints will be a part of fellow Black Deer Competition performer Steve Earle subsequent week at arguably the most important music pageant within the UK – Glastonbury, the place over 200,000 converge on Worthy Farm in Somerset.
Some 10,000 followers attended this yr’s Americana pageant, which was unfold out throughout eight phases, with the considerably lesser-known pageant permitting followers to get a lot nearer to the performers than their counterparts.
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