Eighteen months ago he was a London bus driver. Since then the 24 year old Ashley Thomas – aka Bashy – has scored the British movie “Adulthood”, met the Prime Minister as an anti-knife crime campaigner, launched his own clothing label Bish Bash Bosh, played Glastonbury, toured Nigerian with Damon Albarn’s “Africa Express”, and signed up for a UK tour in the lead role of the play “Marcus the Sadist”. Not too shabby then for a man who thought he’d missed his chance forever.

A trained actor, it was his musical hobby that got him noticed when the gigs he was playing drew raves, so he quit his day job as a postman and waited for a record deal that never happened. He joined the buses and considered himself washed up at 22. But then his eloquent way of paying his respects to successful black men from the US and the UK on the track “Black Boys” became a YouTube hit and his fortunes took a sudden u-turn...





Bashy namechecks Will Smith as an example of what’s possible for his career. After the year he’s just had, you wouldn’t bet against this former driver making his next stop Hollywood.

Blah blah... enough of the spiel... check out the gang-dance action from the 2.10 mark in the video for current single "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". British, cheap, street, love it, sold.

The title of his debut album, out now, says it all… Catch Me If You Can.