Skinny Pelembe

This year I got the honour of being invited to be a guest mentor at Roundhouse for their Music Collective project. I say mentor, but honestly it was me doing the learning from these legends. Back in ican'trememberwhatyearitwasbutitwastheyeariwentthroughabout7differentjobsand3flats, I auditioned for the roundhouse music collective and had my mind blown when i realised one of our programme leaders was none other than Rahel of Hejira and singer of "i'm fine by Eric Lau" fame (was OBSESSED with that track the year I moved to London). Cut forward to now and I've got her to thank for putting me forward for the opportunity ❤️. Was totally touched and frog throated at the first session when they played me covers of 2 songs I wrote and recorded right there in the roundhouse! I met my first live band there! Started being 'Skinny Pelembe' there! I got to play those tunes again with these amazing future stars at the ThreeSixty Festival, and help guide them with some genuinely fantastic songs. Can't wait to be seeing them at airports and festivals in a few years in their future guises. Thanks Barnaby Keen (check out his new stuff, it's unreal), Fran Lobo, was already a big fan, Betty and Chloe, loved working with ya ❤️ Also, who knew, i think i'm a gibson SG guy now! 🫠

Cape Town - God damn! Johannesburg - you're the greatest city in the world! back as soon as humanly possible...

Well, look at that, Depeche Mode, The Smile, Skinny Pelembe 🌈 I’m really made up for Jai Moseley that his video for 'Don’t Be Another' is up for Best Alternative Music Video at the uk music video awards. My songs are my babies and it’s a weird thing letting someone else dress your baby up and present it to the world like Rafiki in the lion king, but 5 minutes into meeting Jai, all I could think was, “let this guy do whatever he wants to, not gonna give him any notes, I just know he’s gonna nail it”. And he did. I’m not sure how, but he managed to pull a California-tinted facsimile of all the fears, doubts and hopes when I wrote it, from out of my head, and mirror it back in gorgeous technicolour. This is a long way round of saying that Jai Moseley has got SOUL and he absolutely deserves to be nominated alongside heroes like the mighty Paul Thomas Anderson ❤️

Si vous comptez terminer une tournée, vous devriez probablement la terminer à Paris. (merci pour les bières de foule, je vous dois toujours!) J'ai eu la chance de le faire, à Pitchfork Music Festival Paris, et j'ai discuté avec Harper's Bazaar France ❤✌

Rencontre avec Skinny Pelembe : “Quand je compose, je laisse mon subconscient parler” - Harper's Bazaar France Du blues au hip-hop, du folk à l’electro-pop, ce surdoué de la scène britannique promène sa silhouette gracile à travers une infinité de styles, avec autant d’aisance que de naturel. Sa programmati...