Hello People! Welcome to the When In Yorkshire Podcast, I hope you’re well very well. We have another rescued episode and one that I genuinely thought had been lost forever. This is episode sixty four and features Katie and Thom from the now chart topping band The Lottery Winners.

We had a chat in York whilst they were on tour with the also chart topping Frank Turner.

Before speaking to Kate and Thom, I kept hearing about The Lottery Winners as they just seemed to be constantly supporting a huge range of bands which in itself isn’t unusual for a band that loves playing live and will take every opportunity to get in-front of new crowds but the fact that all of these bands raved about how great they were made me take more notice.

Then after checking out the tour diary from their dates with Tom Jones as well as the video for Start Again, featuring Frank, I was pretty hooked and then there was the Knickelback Rockstar sea shanty. At that point they joined the list of hopeful future guests. All I can say is they did not disappoint, I enjoy all of these chats but I don’t think I’ve laughed as much in a recording as I did in this so I apologise but it was loads of fun and The Lottery Winners are an absolute force live. As many of you who bought the Anxiety Replacement Therapy album confirmed, they write great songs but it is out in the wild where they really come to life and I strongly recommend getting to a show.

We chatted about their influences and the albums and artists that inspired them and Thom’s desire to be Freddie Mercury which, from their social media it seems he’s dug out his childhood costume.

This was a pleasure to record and I hope you enjoy listening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMV-4zrdSl4 - Start Again (featuring Frank Turner)

https://www.thelotterywinners.co.uk/

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