Nathan Carter says country music isn’t going away
Nathan Carter keeps a straight face when I inquire about his love life. Ever since the Liverpool-Donegal singer broke into the charts with his chart-topping 2012 single ‘Wagon Wheel’, his romantic adventures have become something of a spectator sport. Fans adore his upbeat country-pop, but for many (in the media especially) he is eligible bachelor first, musician second.
Carter is understandably a little nonplussed by all this. But he doesn’t lie awake at night thinking about it. That way lies madness. “I don’t find it annoying — just a bit weird,” says the 25-year-old (for the record: he’s single). “I left school at 16 to play music. Before that I was in a céilí band. My whole life has been about music. Then you get to where I am today and there’s a whole different side to it. It isn’t something you ever expected to find yourself talking about, is it?”
