James Allan
Glasvegas frontman James Allan phoned his band’s manager Dean Cunning to lay rest to people’s concerns that he had officially gone missing. Allan seemed to be well and spending some time in the big Apple , New York City.
Cunning told the Independent: “James is not missing, he’s in New York,” he said. “He got in touch with me yesterday at about 1.45pm to tell me he was OK because he knew people were worried, but to be honest I’ve been just as much in the dark about this as anybody – the last time I saw James was at the gig in Cardiff. I don’t even know exactly when he went missing.”
The band, who opened for U2 in Glasgow last month, were scheduled to fly to Boston today to support Kings Of Leon on their US tour.
When asked whether James would be able to join the band for their American gigs, Mr Cunning said: “I fucking hope so.”
Sony BMG, the band’s record label, are expected to put out an official statement later today as Cunning failed to turn up for the Mercury Music Prize Ceremony last night prompting concerns for his whereabouts and health. Glasvegas had been nominated for their self-titled debut album .
After the band canceled a performance at the Grosvenor Hotel in London his band mates told journalists that he had been missing for five days, although the official line was that he had a “fever”.
Rab Allan, Glasvegas’s guitarist and Allan’s cousin, told the Daily Record newspaper that he had not been seen since Friday, when the band flew into their native Glasgow from Italy.
The band, formed in Glasgow in 2003, impressed the Mercury judges with their “bitter sweet sounds of classic rock ‘n’ roll”, and “gloriously elegiac anthems of contemporary life”.