By Keith Walsh

Just outside London, singer/songwriter Tom Cridland is making the most of the time freed up by the COVID-19 lockdown. “Very strange times we’re living in,” he writes me in an email, “but I am greatly enjoying being at home with Debs, family, music, film, books, home cooked food… all the simple pleasures.”

Cridland, who first became widely known in 2014 as a fashion designer, branched out into a music career in 2017, first with The Tomicks, and now as a solo artist, releasing a spate of weekly new singles since September of last year. By September 2020 he plans to release all 130 of his new tunes, which range in genre from pop, to hard rock, to disco – in what may be the most ambitious release schedule of any artist ever.

In recent weeks  Cridland’s work on his instrumental skills has intensified. He writes:  “I am currently learning the piano and have made a lot of progress. I plan to tour solo with just me and a piano moving forward, for the time being as I love playing it so much.”

Cridland and his band are slated to tour the UK with the classic group The Stylistics, in the autumn. In addition, he has just released a series of  video interviews with top recording artists from the past six decades, at www.greatestmusicofalltime.com.

Cridland says he’s glad that the pandemic has not affected the popularity of his 30 Year Clothing fashion line, which includes blazers, trousers, and shirts, all guaranteed to last for three decades. Find out more about this multi-faceted talent at www.tomcridland.com

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