Walking down Hollywood Blvd on any given day or night, you usually find dozens of abandoned, neglected souls. The average suburbanite might cringe at the smell, the horrid display of emotional poverty. What might our reaction to Vincent Van Gogh have been, particularly if we had not understood or viewed his art?
After founding a successful fashion label ten years ago and releasing three albums with his roots-inspired rock band The Tomicks, British designer turned singer/songwriter Tom Cridland has traveled the U.S. and elsewhere with Tom’s Elton Tribute. There’s a bit of magic involved as Cridland picked up the drumsticks after encouragement from Nigel Olsson, a luminary of Elton John’s band for more than 50 years.
British fashion entrepreneur Tom Cridland’s success as a clothier is all the more impressive when one considers that he achieved much of it in between drunken episodes and sometimes during them.
Tom Cridland is one of the most restlessly creative and industrious people I have ever met.
In his new memoir, ‘Million Dollar Addict’, Tom Cridland goes into vivid detail of his business adventures and personal exploits, in a narrative that’s dialed back just a tad from the memoirs of Hunter S. Thompson. I had the good fortune to sit at the legendary Canter’s Delicatessen on Fairfax in Los Angeles, to discuss the book with Cridland and his fiancée Debs Marx.
With the release of ‘The Rock Star Paradox: Are You Such A Boring Musician?’ I find a more philosophical edge to the man/feline. Gilles The Chesire Snowcat?