The Lottery Winners “hate” their title.
The ‘Let Me Down’ hitmakers – which embrace Thom Rylance, Robert Lally, Katie Lloyd, and Joe Singleton – want that they had chosen a distinct moniker as a result of not solely are they laborious to search out in on-line searches, they develop uninterested in tacky puns being made after they’re talked about.
Thom advised the Day by day Star Sunday newspaper’s Wired column: “I hate our band title.
“It is effectively too late to vary it however I actually wished to name the band The Ugly Folks.
“We have been Lottery Winners for 15 years and I do not assume I’ve ever learn an article that does not say, ‘Oh they hit the jackpot with their new single.’
“So I problem you to not use any lottery puns!”
However the group had thought of selling their new album, ‘Anxiousness Substitute Remedy’, with scratch playing cards as a play on their title.
Nonetheless, Thom stated: “It is one thing we considered, and I wished to do it for this album really however I used to be advised that it is a unhealthy concept.”
After years of working collectively, the group are thrilled to have lastly landed a primary album, although are discovering their newfound fame laborious to cope with.
Thom stated: “When you find yourself a artistic, it’s important to cope with years and years of rejection.
“So, when hastily it flips and there’s extra acceptance and individuals are praising you, it is laborious to get used to that and flip the stability.
“It has been actually laborious to cope with it, I hold crying on stage and no person needs that.
“No person is paying for tickets to see a fats man cry, and I’m so sorry it retains occurring. I hope I get cool now.”
