BILL BAILEY HAS never been shy about his love of metal. From offering his own surrealist takes on the genre in his comedy routines, to tangoing to Metallica’s Enter Sandman on primetime BBC show Strictly Come Dancing – which he ultimately won in 2020 – Bill has been an avowed champion of heavy throughout his near-30-year career. With a new tour on the horizon for 2024, we thrust the multi-instrumentalist and comedic genius under the spotlight and grilled him with your questions…
What’s your favourite concept album?
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“I may have mentioned this before, but I love by Mastodon. It’s massive! You don’t really get concept albums on this scale anymore, people just don’t seem to do it, but there’s something unrestrainedly brilliant about The fact that it’s based on – if you needed to base a story on anything, you couldn’t pick better really than this classic work of literature, this epic tale
