Gran rolls up after Bru up with Tom
BY RICK FULTON RISING Scots star Tom Walker turned TRNSMT into a family affair with 11 special guests watching his King Tut’s Stage headline gig yesterday. They included his 80-year-old gran Sadie, who put him up at her home in Cumbernauld on Thursday night and gave him a breakfast of a square sausage roll and Irn-Bru yesterday morning. Tom, 26, who was born in Glasgow but raised in Manchester, said: “It was the perfect start to a perfect day. “I love Scottish rolls. I can’t get enough of them and then I had my first-ever Scottish festival show headlining a stage.” Tom was looking forward to having his granny watch him perform. She said later: “This is my first festival and I’m so proud of him.” Sadie has become something of a star since a Record story last year about Tom. But he forgot to give her a shout-out in his last Scottish gig at Glasgow’s Oran Mor.
He said: “Lots of people afterwards were saying, ‘Why didn’t you give your gran a mention?’ It was the end of a tour and I was knackered but I’ll do it tonight.”
Tom is in the UK top 10 with his first chart hit, Leave a Light On, and owes it to his Glaswegian dad John, who bought him his first guitar.
He said: “It was many years after we’d moved to Manchester. He was up in Glasgow and bought it for my Christmas. He took me to my first gigs – AC/DC, Muse and Foo Fighters.”
Tom, whose family moved south when he was three, can speak in both a Scottish and a Mancunian accent.
He said: “It depends who I’m talking to. My parents are Glaswegian and I talk to them in a Scottish accent, which my pals think is weird.”