Last year, in front of 65,000 people in Germany, Shane Greenhall hit his stride. His band Those Damn Crows were on tour with Böhse Onkelz – virtually unknown in the UK, massive in their homeland – and mega-crowds were the norm. The Crows had German fans from past shows, but they still faced a mammoth task: converting an audience that wasn’t there for them. By this point they were accustomed to playing for thousands, and tens of thousands, across Europe. It was an intense period. They missed Wales. Arguably, though, it was the making of them as a proper big-stage band.
“I think I’m better being a bit uncomfortable,” singer Greenhall muses. “I think that brings out something in me, performance wise, a determination, this focus. I don’t get wound up in the emotion. It’s about proving yourself. I kind of like that battle.”
