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 Festival of Americana, held within the UK.
The Emmy winner informed 9Honey after coming off stage at Eridge Park that his two kids are coming round to the concept of their dad as a rock star.
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“I think they’re quite liking it, now they’re getting used to it,” Lewis mentioned.
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 numerous music festivals in “my young 20s, when I started going with pals” and enjoys now sharing the British summer time custom with his youngsters.
“I’ve been to lots of different festivals and I love it,” the musician mentioned.
“[I] take my kids to Latitude. There’s glamping ways of doing it and there’s real camping ways of doing it – I won’t tell you which one I prefer but I can say I’ve done both,” he laughed.
The British star added that he’d be thrilled if his new album introduced him Down Under, the place he says he’ll keep at his A Spy Among Friends co-star’s home.
“Hell, why not? If I’m invited,” Lewis mentioned when requested if he’ll tour Australia.
“Aussie fans, I love you, buy the record, I hope you like it and I’ll come and stay with my friend Guy Pearce when I come down.”
Lewis wasn’t the one actor among the many lengthy listing of music heavyweights at the three-day pageant within the southeastern English countryside of Kent, which included a line-up that includes legends such as The Pretenders, Bonnie Raitt and Steve Earle, together with Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson and Australian-born musicians The Teskey Brothers.
House of the Dragon and Dunkirk actor Tom Glynn-Carney additionally took to the stage with his band, the six-piece outfit Sleep Walking Animals.
The 28-year-old informed 9Honey backstage at the pageant he is having fun with juggling his two artistic loves and is grateful he can deliver his fanbase from one to the opposite.
“We’re just grateful for the support, wherever it comes from,” Glynn-Carney mentioned.
“It’s two very different things for me. The acting is one thing and music’s the other and they’re both very important plates that I like to spin in my life.”
“The way my schedule is working this year is that there’s a chunk of time where I’m filming and then there’s loads of time where I’m not and that will be more music focused.
“It’s necessary [to me] to map it out and kind of carve out time for each and to this point we have managed to make it work.”
While some of his bandmates joke about the “cool” perks and “a great deal of free drinks” that come with having an actor in the band, others appreciate the fan base that’s built in as they continue 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 End present. They come for that originally after which they keep for the music and so they truly love the music,” guitarist Joe Etherington mentioned.
Another outfit that may relate to that is Far From Saints.
The trio contains 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 appreciated the truth that some individuals prefer it, some individuals do not prefer it,” Jones told 9Honey of the band’s sound, after coming off stage at Black Deer Festival.
“I think it’s a band in its personal proper. I do not think it seems like me doing one thing over there with a bunch of different individuals, I think it’s been obtained that manner.
“It doesn’t sound like Wind and the Wave, it doesn’t sound like Stereophonics, so I think people who have a sense of what I write about and how I deliver music will probably understand it.
“I’m really pleased with these individuals who comply with the music that I make, it’s a privilege.”
The band’s debut and self-titled album, which also was released the day they took to the festival stage, was recorded in just nine days but took four years to release.
“The report was sort of [a] very, very spontaneous, superb time frame,” Jones said.
“And we completed all of it earlier than lockdown began after which lockdown sort of put a pause on it.
“So to be doing these shows the last three/four weeks leading up to the day, this actually coming out, and playing shows if and when it gets in the charts and stuff, we’re all going to be together is really nice.”
For Baker, who has additionally written songs for Kelly Clarkson, he labels their efficiency on the report’s launch day as “super cathartic”.
While Lynn says the silver lining for her is that she’s not watching social media on the massive day.
“I love that we’re playing a show on the release day because then that means I’m not sitting on my couch, scrolling through Twitter and looking at all the comments,” Lynn informed 9Honey.
“I’m just doing what I do and I’m having a great time and that’s what it’s all about.”
Far From Saints will be a part of fellow Black Deer Festival 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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