Pop star, record producer, film composer, tech entrepreneur, author, academic, filmmaker... few people embody the phrase ‘renaissance man’ more than Thomas Dolby. In the last 10 years alone, he has put out a best-selling memoir (2016’s The Speed Of Sound: Breaking The Barriers Between Music And Technology), joined the famed Johns Hopkins University as lecturer and written his first novel, of which more later. And now, if that wasn’t diary-busting enough, Dolby is about to go on the road for a series of dates around North America as part of the Totally Tubular tour (alongside the likes of Tom Bailey, Modern English, Bow Wow Wow and others), and six headline shows in his native UK. A rarity indeed.
Hyperactive! – After varied and numerous other projects, synth-pop's tech-savvy scientist returns to the stages of the UK
Describing himself on X as a “Recovering synth enthusiast”, Dolby is now Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University