“IT'S ONLY ROCK’N’ROLL ISN’T IT?”
The hitherto smoothly cropped Danny Bowes is growing his hair again. Although he insists it’s only because, like the rest of us in lockdown, he has no choice. In the nicest possible way, the man staring out of my screen via Zoom shows none of the debonair style we’ve come to associate with the Thunder frontman. Don’t tell her, but he blames his wife. “If I leave it to get longer I look like a homeless guy,” he says, “so I let her cut it. Now I look like a fucking convict!”
But, ever the optimist, he’s confident he’ll have got out of jail whenever the band eventually tour to promote their new, thirteenth studio album . It’s poised to continue the band’s purple patch of consecutive Top-10 UK chart placings begun with 2015’s – a revelation recorded after a six-year hiatus and in the shadow of second guitarist Ben Matthews’s successful battle with cancer. Powerful follow-up (2017) boldly refused to sound like it. And on (2019) the music was different again – Thunder deconstructing a collection
