Get the latest gossip
ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Open Wide by Inhaler: Has Bono's son's band finally found what it's looking for?
As the eldest son of Bono, Eli Hewson knew that choosing a career in music would leave him open to the inevitable 'nepo-baby' accusations that are often levelled at the offspring of the rich and famous.
Ignoring the advice of his parents, who wanted him to go to university, Eli and his bandmates — guitarist Josh Jenkinson, bassist Robert Keating and drummer Ryan McMahon — began gigging relentlessly and topped the UK charts with that first release, It Won’t Always Be Like This. Alongside Sam Fender and fellow Dubliners Fontaines DC, the group, who formed as teenagers at St Andrew’s College, have helped to spark a fresh interest in young rock acts. Kid Harpoon, who co-wrote Harry Styles’s As It Was and co-produced Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, applies a similarly smooth, mainstream pop glaze to Even Though, suggesting that Inhaler have their sights set firmly on bigger things.
Or read this on Daily Mail