He’s flat-shared with Scottish songwriters and been hailed as the future of rock by Dave Grohl. Now Doncaster’s pop-punk outcast is releasing an album he hopes will be as big as Winehouse and Gaga
Self-professed punk and anointed voice of a generation Yungblud has done himself a mischief. The day before our interview, while sporting a pair of tight latex shorts, the man born Dominic Harrison attempted a high-kick move from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP video, pulling his hamstring in the process. It’s not the 23-year-old’s only ailment today, either. Ahead of the release of his second album of anarchy-adjacent pop-rock, Weird!, he’s not been sleeping. It means his oversized energy – think Liam Gallagher via Skins pushed through a TikTok filter – has a certain extra piquancy, not helped by our interview taking place in that strange time between national lockdowns.
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