Wild Beasts’ Tom Fleming unveils new project One True Pairing


Wild Beasts performing at the London Roundhouse on October 5th, 2016. (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)

Tom Fleming with Wild Beasts performing at the London Roundhouse (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)




After the release of Hayden Thorpe’s debut solo album Diviner back in May, Tom Fleming has now announced his own post-Wild Beasts intentions.

Under the moniker One True Pairing, Fleming has put out a song of the same name and will make his live bow at the Bedford Tavern in London on July 25th. “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed,” he explains. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all.”

“I wanted to write about the real world. This is a song about hope, about getting beaten down and getting up again, more wide-eyed and full of wonder than you ever were before. It’s about doing wrong and then seeing things for what they really are.

“It’s a love song, or as close as I’ll ever want to get to one. The name of the whole project is something of a savage joke, but this time I mean it 100% sincerely. Wear the scars proudly, wave ‘em in the faces of people who don’t, will never understand what they mean.”


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