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Line Of Duty actor Adrian Dunbar planning music career
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 22 July 2019
Actor Adrian Dunbar is to become the latest mid-level TV star to have a crack at this music thing. Best known for playing Ted Hastings in ‘Line Of Duty’, he says he is currently working on a “country jazz” album.
“I’m hoping to do something in the recording studio some time this year and I’ve had a couple of approaches about doing things”, he tells The Sun, suggesting he hasn’t yet signed a Nick Knowles-style major label deal.
“I was in bands many years ago, singing backing vocals and all the rest of it”, he adds, justifying all of this. “I just never got a chance to do any of that because I started acting and you focus on other things. But I’ve always kept it going and I’ve always done gigs with friends of mine in Ronnie Scott’s over the years”.
“It’s kind of country jazz really”, he says of his ‘sound’. “I like stuff that straddles the easy listening, country jazz sort of [thing]”.
Something to look forward to there then. Meanwhile, the BBC has already commissioned two more series of bad dialogue contest ‘Line Of Duty’. Let’s hope Dunbar’s work on those doesn’t get in the way of his singing. That would be a real shame, I’m sure you’ll all agree.