Tom Grennan on wake-up call after finding himself in a ‘bad place’: ‘I was doing all sorts of s**t’

Tom Grennan has reflected on an urgent wake-up call that came after his manager told him there would be “100 more of him”. He’s on the cover of this week’s magazine to herald the arrival of a “new chapter” of his music, and also to promote an exciting new live performance – a Big Busk later this month in aid of Big Issue. Nick Cave on wild swimming, sons’ deaths and why a broken world can be beautiful at the same time Chart-topping DJ Sigala: ‘I’m looking after myself after seeing where it went wrong for Avicii’ “My attitude wasn’t the best for a bit,” Grennan says in the new issue on sale today (Monday 13 September).

“Then I had to flip my life around and say, I’ve got this chance, don’t do what you did with football and fuck it up. That’s what I did, and what I’m trying to do now.” Grennan shared details of a conversation with his managed John, adding: “People say you’ve done it, you’ve made it.

I haven’t made nothing. [John is] the guy who said, ‘There’s going to be 100 more of you, you’ve got one chance of this, like what are you doing?’ That shifted my mindset. I look up to him so much.

” Grennan changed who he hangs out with and started “training my bollocks off at the gym ” from 6am, keeping to a set diet and sleeping during the day. “I don’t know how far I can go into this without me sounding like I..

. I was just in a bad place, you know what I’m saying,” he admits. “I was doing all sorts of crazy .