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Former Wild Beast Tom Fleming enters his Nebraska phase
Tom Fleming: moaning in a compelling way?
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TOM Fleming looks visibly uncomfortable. Wincing slightly and scratching his beard, he looks away from our video call before admitting with a rueful grin: “I’m still feeling a bit guilty about being a singer-songwriter. Do you know what I mean? It’s not something I feel is necessarily a viable art form.” As a magazine that features no shortage of such performers, we’re bound to ask: why ever not? “Well, it’s just the cliché of it. I am, you know, one guy with an acoustic guitar a lot of the time… I don’t want to be seen as another moaning white boy.”