Rock icons Feeder on 30 years in the business, new album Torpedo, and Adele
dailystar.co.ukFeeder’s lead singer is enthusiastic and friendly throughout our chat, and even comes prepared with an acoustic guitar as he scuttles onto my laptop screen.It’s tempting to start off by asking for a rendition of one of Grant’s catalogue of hits, but we instead begin with how the singer whittled away his time over a strange couple of years.“For me being a songwriter, that’s kind of kept my sanity a little bit.
Although it’s been my career for 30 years, it’s still something I like doing,” he acknowledges.For a man who fronted a band formed in the boisterous era of the Gallaghers and co, Grant is strikingly ordinary.
During lockdown, he tells me, he took up gardening and did a little running, but mainly made the most of an extended period at home with his family.There was also the small matter of writing and recording Feeder’s latest work, Torpedo, an album that veers onto the rockier side of the band’s broad spectrum but still delivers the pop-gilded punch fans have come to expect from the Welsh group.“I didn’t see Taka the whole time I was writing this record,” Grant explains. “Basically, this album has gone through various things.
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