{"id":674134,"date":"2026-07-04T22:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:44:23","slug":"from-wolves-academy-heartbreak-to-playing-glastonbury-with-wolf-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674134\/","title":{"rendered":"From Wolves academy heartbreak to playing Glastonbury with Wolf Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a teenager, Ryan Malcolm dreamed of one day playing for his beloved hometown team Wolves at Molineux. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But upon being released after years in the academy, he threw himself into music instead &#8211; a path that has taken him from the West Midlands indie scene to touring the world with Brit Award winners Wolf Alice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, the keyboard player has headlined festivals far and wide, performed at Glastonbury and even toured Europe, supporting Harry Styles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, five years after he was working in a factory during the pandemic, Malcolm will perform in front of 50,000 people at a Wolf Alice homecoming gig at London&#8217;s Finsbury Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Looking back, the 38-year-old, originally from Bilston, Wolverhampton, said missing out on a career in football was the setback that ultimately pushed him towards music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a teenager, Ryan Malcolm dreamed of one day playing for his beloved hometown team Wolves at Molineux.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}