Rum Lad is a working class Indie Punk n Rolla hailing from Derbyshire UK, singing songs about real life, honesty, tragedy, romance & council estates.

Brought up on a council estate in Retford, Nottinghamshire you saw a few things to make you open your eyes to the world, from going without food to the miners strikes in the 80's life was hard, but it was also a lesson in how to grow up fast,

I harbour no regrets, I enjoyed my upbringing, but I look back and wonder why the world has got so fast and digital.

Following on from the council estate life in a working class town I've lived up and down the UK for many years with more than a few tales of loss, tragedy, heartbreak, fights and fisticuffs and its been eventful for sure, so putting all this stuff in my brain into songs and creating new energy from past negatives has given me an outlet to share my thoughts with the world

These songs are my observations, memories, thoughts, rants & stories of a very interesting path through life, and I'd like to kick start all of that off on a professional level with a first run of vinyl for my debut album 'Vandalism'

Everybody who donates £20 or above will receive the album and some other Rum Lad merchandise upon release and enable me to get this album into vinyl stores and out into the public domain.

Under normal circumstances I would be funding this myself and I am throwing a large amount of my own money into this too, but due to Covid and obvious restrictions this was suggested to me by someone I hugely respect in music to get the whole thing kicked off in the correct manner.

Thankyou for your help, it's appreciated.

Rum Lad