STRONG SUIT
Flamboyant singer and songwriter Laurie Belgrave tells Attitude about his new music, being on stage with Adele and how he fell in love with Freddie Mercury
Words Owen Myers
Words Owen Myers
Photography Markus Bidaux
BELGRAVE
Laurie Belgrave has never been a wallflower. At 14, the singer-songwriter staked out the front row of a riotous Scissor Sisters show in Brighton, wearing tartan flares and a polka-dot shirt — unsurprisingly, the flamboyant look landed him a place on the band’s 2004 live DVD. Then he spent part of his early twenties modelling and developed a love for tailoring, thanks to a stint working on London’s most famous street for suits: Savile Row.
“Being an artist, a part of you has to love attention”, he says, tucked away in the corner of a cosy north London pub. “So if I’m walking down the street in a pink suit, I don’t mind people looking at me.”