Rising singer-songwriter ADMT is an artist identified for sporting his coronary heart on his sleeve.
The Doncaster singer, actual identify Adam Taylor, initially honed his music expertise by means of busking throughout the pandemic, transitioning from being a drummer in a band to changing into a solo performer. After his cowl of fifty Cent’s ‘Greatest Pal’ went viral (with the rapper sharing it on social media), ADMT propelled into the highlight and began to launch his personal music.
Drawing inspiration from private lived experiences, ADMT’s music is a breath of contemporary air which mixes his beautiful vocals with laborious hitting but relatable lyricism. He has since gained a web based following of over 1.5 million, charming audiences the world over along with his music. With a listing of soul-baring tracks behind him, that is an artist who won’t ever draw back from tackling troublesome topics. He desires the world to know his reality and he does so fantastically with such honesty.
2025 has been an enormous 12 months for ADMT with the discharge of singles together with ‘F**ok You’ and ‘Queens’ that includes rapper Huge Narstie. He’s additionally in the course of his second UK tour, culminating with a present at Dingwalls, London on Halloween. There isn’t any doubt that ADMT is one to look at and is destined for a fair brighter future.
We caught up with ADMT to debate his new music, touring, songwriting, and hopes for the longer term.
Thanks for taking the time to talk to us when you’re on tour! How’s all of it going up to now?
My pleasure, thanks for having me. The tour has been insane up to now to be truthful. Every thing simply feels actually actual now. I don’t know what it’s. I used to be simply talking to a buddy earlier about it and one thing feels totally different. I feel once I did my first tour, folks kind of got here for one or two songs and now it seems like individuals are there for the total present so it’s been fairly magic.
You’ve nonetheless bought some UK and European dates forward of you, together with a efficiency at Dingwalls in London on Halloween. What can followers who’ve but to see you reside anticipate from these reveals?
I’ve by no means been actually good at explaining what followers can anticipate from reveals. I assume folks have simply bought to come back and discover out, you realize?! I feel and hope that all the pieces I’ve written is sincere and hopefully folks will expertise that and really feel the feelings that I felt once I was writing these songs and making these songs and the identical factor once I’m performing them. Hopefully they’ll be on that journey with me all through the present.
What are a few of your house comforts that it is advisable have while out on tour?
I wish to say I’m not a diva. I don’t assume I’m a diva, possibly the boys can have one other opinion on that, however all I really want once I’m on tour is a pillow only for once we’re within the van or get into locations and stuff simply so I can attempt to get snug. My headphones simply so I can take heed to music or podcasts as effectively. That’s just about it, there’s nothing main that I would like. I’m fairly low upkeep, effectively, I feel I’m anyway haha.
Certainly one of your most up-to-date releases is ‘Fuck You’ which feels fairly self explanatory, however are you able to discuss us by means of the inspiration behind it?
I assume greater than something, it’s about empowerment to me. It’s about taking management of your personal life and your personal emotions. I really feel like sooner or later in everybody’s life, we’ve all, whether or not we use the swear phrase or not, we’ve all skilled a place the place we now have to say, we’re not doing this anymore. I’m not going to simply accept this stage of behaviour from another person or myself, whether or not it’s gaslighting or manipulation.
I feel as a youthful man, I felt loads of that all through my life. And I feel ‘Fuck You’ is simply the purpose the place you say, no, I’m not doing this anymore and I’m taking again my energy, you realize? That’s sort of why I wrote it. However yeah, I additionally really feel it feels good to say it typically.
You’ve additionally simply launched a brand new monitor referred to as ‘Queens’ with Huge Narstie, and carried out it with him for the primary time in Nottingham. What was the fan response like?
It’s been superb to be sincere. I used to be sat on this music for a minute. I wrote it a 12 months or so in the past with some mates after which Huge Narstie was cool sufficient to ask me to the studio at some point and we had been chatting. I used to be like, are you aware what? I’ve bought a music that possibly you’d like. And I performed it to him and he laid the verse down and that was it.
The response’s been nice. It’s one thing I wrote in regards to the issues that my mum went by means of and I simply tried to be as sincere as I might as a result of I do know there’s lots of people on the market most likely going by means of the identical issues as effectively. Hopefully folks can really feel that and resonate with that. However yeah, it’s been sick to be truthful, buzzing!
“Queens is a music for my mum, who’s at all times been my rock and largest help. But it surely’s additionally for each mum on the market doing her greatest to carry issues collectively, present, and love unconditionally. It is a celebration of their energy. I’m mad grateful that Huge Narstie jumped on this music. He’s a legend, so to have him on my monitor is mad. I really feel really blessed for his power.” – ADMT
“Nothing can examine to a mom’s unconditional love. I’m blessed to be surrounded by Queens and grateful to have been raised by a queen. I really like you Mum and all of the Mum’s around the globe.” – Huge Narstie
You’ve launched loads of extremely private music over the previous 12 months or so – what do you hope that individuals will take away out of your music?
I don’t assume it’s as much as me what folks take away from it. I hope they take away one thing that’s optimistic and reassuring. If it’s a troublesome subject, possibly one thing that hopefully helps them in their very own journey of progress all through life. However I don’t actually hope that anybody takes something aside from that. I really feel like our journeys are our personal and that’s as much as folks to really feel how they really feel once they really feel it, if you realize what I imply.
You discuss loads of laborious hitting subjects in your music together with psychological well being, poverty, housing points, and youth training. How necessary is it to you to create music that others can relate to?
I feel it’s actually necessary to…I feel the overarching factor is, folks referring to your music is all you’ve gotten and I don’t write songs about stuff simply so folks relate. Clearly, I hope everybody relates. That’s my dream, that individuals can relate to stuff. But additionally I assume a number of the issues I discuss particularly with psychological well being and issues like that, it’s a bit upsetting that individuals relate. I sort of do it as a result of I simply need folks to be okay and never endure.
I feel struggling is without doubt one of the elements of the human situation. I feel all of us endure in our personal methods. And if me or different artists can alleviate a few of that by means of the music, then that’s actually all that issues. I additionally assume it’s necessary simply to be sincere about our views on life. I’m not saying I’m proper. I simply assume everyone seems to be alive and everybody has a perspective. Subsequently, everyone seems to be entitled to that perspective and I hope that something I say, in no matter approach I say it, simply brings folks just a little little bit of peace, possibly.
What’s your songwriting course of like? How do you go about pouring your coronary heart and soul into your music?
It’s mad as a result of once I first began writing songs, I used to be in a manufacturing unit attempting to jot down songs on an evening shift and I couldn’t hear myself assume as a result of it was so loud. And I assume now it’s rather a lot totally different to that however one of many issues that’s simply necessary to me is simply discovering one thing that resonates, discovering one thing that feels prefer it’s the factor that I wish to write about after which I really feel like your honesty and the best way you do it, it will get pulled out of you.
There’s a lot of alternative ways I love to do it. I identical to to search out one thing, whether or not it’s some chords or a guitar or a piano, I like to search out one thing that seems like it’s the subject that I wish to discuss if you realize what I imply. Generally you’ll be able to play some chords and the subject comes out of the chords virtually, you don’t have a pre-planned factor of the way it’s going to be. I don’t actually have a course of like that, it’s extra if it feels actual no matter it’s. If it’s find it irresistible’s bought to be real love. If it’s heartbreak it’s bought to be actual heartbreak, If it’s psychological well being it must be actual. It must be about one thing that’s actual as a result of I don’t assume you’ll be able to pretend emotion and I really feel like should you do it’s at all times missing a bit in comparison with one thing that’s actual.
Do you’ve gotten a favorite lyric that you simply’ve penned?
I feel one of the crucial necessary lyrics for me and one thing that I’ve written is from a music that I did referred to as ‘Overboard’, which is about psychological well being. It’s nearly folks understanding that they matter and that they need to keep right here with us and never do one thing that they may remorse.
It’s simply the opening line, it’s “I need you to know that I see you and your voice to me will at all times be heard”. As a result of I really feel like we’re conditioned to typically consider, no matter our job or our place in society, on this tribe of humanity, that we’re lesser than and I simply don’t consider that. I feel everybody is similar, everyone seems to be equal and everybody ought to know that they matter, their opinion issues, their voice issues and their life issues.
You may rely the likes of fifty Cent as a fan of yours – who’re a few of your present favorite artists and influences?
That is at all times a troublesome query as a result of there’s so many artists on the market now, there’s a lot expertise, it’s simply troublesome to even checklist. I might most likely checklist lots of of those that I’m identical to, this particular person’s superb, this particular person did this, this artist impressed this. When it comes to newer artists, I’m an enormous fan of Olivia Dean. I feel she’s unimaginable. I really feel like she’s timeless, she’s simply insanely proficient. The best way she writes and the best way she captures emotion and life in what she does is magic.
However I usually go to older music. I kind of scatter between older stuff and newer stuff as a result of I really feel like there’s magic in outdated songs as effectively which are virtually forgotten about and you may deliver that hopefully into the stuff you’re writing right here and now as effectively. I used to be listening to Angie Stone yesterday simply because she was superb. Actually, the checklist goes on, it’s so troublesome to reply that query. So mainly, everybody haha!
You began your profession by means of busking throughout lockdown – we had been all simply doing issues to attempt to survive throughout that point, so did you ever think about that by 2025 you’d be embarking in your second tour?
I decided with myself a great few years in the past, most likely round lockdown. I used to be coping with rather a lot, it was the darkest time of my life with reference to my psychological well being and issues like that. And I feel I decided to struggle [for myself] so long as I did it in a great way and hopefully a compassionate and sort approach, however struggle for myself and for what I felt like I needed for my time on this planet and that was doing this.
So there’s a part of me that was like, yeah, I knew this could occur, however I don’t know if that’s simply me being an fool haha. I really feel like I needed this to occur however I don’t assume you’ll be able to ever know what’s coming. There’s at all times that particular person in you that’s just like the imposter, like, ‘oh, you’ll be able to’t do that, what are you doing?’ kind of factor. I imply, that man by no means goes away, I simply have to inform him to close up.
Should you requested me if I believed I’d be doing one other tour like this and the rooms can be bought out and the folks would simply be simply the sickest audiences I’ve ever performed to? In all probability not but in addition there’s that bit in you that needed to consider it for it to occur. The reality is, I don’t know what I believed then. I feel I used to be taking every day because it got here simply with how life was typically. However I do know that I’m tremendous grateful and I’m tremendous blessed to be the place I’m now.
You additionally used to play drums in a band earlier than making the transfer to develop into a solo artist. What was the toughest factor about that transition?
I feel the toughest factor is once I was taking part in drums and I used to be sat behind a drum package, I used to be tremendous protected and nobody actually checked out you. I used to be simply sat on the again. I by no means actually aimed to be a frontman or like a singer actually, it was by no means the plan, the plan was at all times to be a drummer. I feel the toughest factor was truly most likely my very own ego. I believed, ‘ah, it will probably’t be that arduous, you realize’. I used to talk to the frontman of the band and be like, ‘bro, why don’t you do that, why don’t you try this?’ after which once I did it, I used to be like, oh shit, that is effectively scary. This isn’t what I believed in any respect.
I truly assume the toughest factor was understanding that it’s mad troublesome to be a singer and the one who everybody’s taking a look at when it’s not essentially your pure go-to factor. If I’m having a dialog outdoors, I’m assured, I can discuss to folks, however getting on the stage for me and doing this factor the place everybody’s simply taking a look at you is fairly nerve-wracking and I nonetheless kind of battle with that at present. Once more, it’s the imposter syndrome factor that is available in, I’m like, what’s going on? A lot safer behind the drums, but in addition I really feel like there’s energy in being susceptible and being there and simply being sincere about no matter is occurring and no matter it’s I’m doing.
What’s been your spotlight of your profession up to now?
There’s clearly issues like 50 Cent noticing me, the love that he confirmed me was enormous. It was like successful the lottery for a musician to have that kind of publicity and simply greater than something, the truth that he didn’t have to do this for me. He didn’t have to point out me to the world and I feel that’s one thing that’s at all times going to stick with me perpetually for so long as I’m right here. That was large.
However all through my profession, I’ve been fortunate with different artists – there’s a bunch that I actually look as much as referred to as Overseas Beggars early on that allowed me to be on their album and took me underneath the wing. And I used to be like, I don’t deserve this. That is loopy. After which Huge Narstie reaching out and saying, ‘come to the studio’, was like, what? I’ve simply been tremendous blessed by different artists who’re in much more profitable positions than I’m simply exhibiting me love. I feel that’s confirmed me how I wish to be if and as this grows with different artists on the come up. I feel there’s one thing magic about that and it reveals folks’s nature and reveals who individuals are.
That’s simply to call a couple of. There’s been so many instances however this tour typically [is a highlight], like I mentioned earlier, simply wanting again and I’m like, ‘oh, these folks know all of the songs, that’s psychological’. This tour has been a spotlight. You simply pinch your self, you realize, such as you pray to whoever you pray to and you’re employed laborious however I feel when issues truly begin to occur, it’s necessary to only replicate and be like, ‘wow, that is psychological’. I’m simply tremendous grateful. I really feel just like the highlights maintain coming in so many various methods. It’s mad.
2026 is quick approaching – what are your goals for the 12 months forward?
I sort of attempt to maintain it easy. Clearly my objectives and my ambitions are at all times that I wish to do as a lot as I can whereas I’m on this planet. Like most of us, I wish to expertise as many issues as I can, as many feelings as I can, and reside a life that hopefully I can look again on and be like, ‘you realize what, you didn’t skip something, you didn’t miss something. You probably did all proper’.
I feel the underlying factor is at all times simply to maintain going and continue to grow. Development is all I need. Like mentally, spiritually, in my profession, all the pieces actually. I simply wish to do higher, see the world and hopefully assist some folks whereas all that’s occurring as effectively.
‘Queens’ is out now.
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