I’m a music star working with AC/DC and supporting the Foo Fighters – but I still do supermarket shifts to make cash
A TOP Welsh rocker has revealed his second job at a supermarket to make ends meet – despite his band supporting the Foo Fighters on tour.
The star told how he could “continue to do what I love” while taking on his second hustle.
Joe Williams’ primary passion is as the singer and guitarist of his band Himalayas, a Cardiff-based group formed in 2015.
During the group’s six-year lifespan they have collaborated with Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC.
The From Hell To Here hitmakers have also penned in a diary date to support The Foo Fighters on tour next year, but Joe has told how he and his three bandmates are still keeping it real.
He told The Guardian: “I have been in various jobs throughout the six-year lifetime of the band. I’ve done service-industry stuff and now I’m working in a supermarket.”
Joe added: “We’re in jobs where we’re kind of expendable, but work gave me unpaid leave to record our second album, which was awesome.
“After four weeks on tour in Europe there’s a little bit of dread about having to go back to work on Monday, but having a job means I’m able to continue doing what I love.”
He then let slip how it was while working in his career away from fame when the band secured their biggest gig yet.
It came after Himalayas signed a worldwide deal to Nettwerk Records last year.
Joe added: “I was at work in the supermarket when I found out that we’re supporting Foo Fighters at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff next June in front of 75,000 people, the biggest show we’ve ever played.
“We’re all still in second jobs, but have recently started to glimpse a future where we won’t be working at anything other than music.
“All our employers know that’s always been the ambition, but the jobs have kept the band going and now we’re starting to do some of the amazing things we used to dream about.”
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