Gerry Cinnamon

Early life Crosbie was raised in The Valley, He has said that he was a fan of Oasis, and The La's. He has a particular admiration for the work of Bob Dylan. a neighbour from Castlemilk. They began collaborating on a casual basis with Marshall arranging the songs and Crosbie the lyricist, and eventually formed a lo-fi band, The Cinnamons, along with Lori Duncan, Dave Bass and Gav Hunter; Crosbie subsequently adopted the Cinnamon name as a solo performer and his later catalogue contains some compositions from the era, such as "Sometimes". he was invited to write and perform a song at a rally event in George Square ahead of the referendum on Scottish independence. and performed to a large crowd on the T-Break Stage at T in the Park, fulfilling a long-held ambition to play at the festival. as he had hoped to do a year earlier.

In November, without being signed to a record label, he headlined at Glasgow's O2 ABC Glasgow, the promotion of which had consisted of a single message on his Facebook profile;

Breakthrough and Erratic Cinematic (2017–2018) In July 2017, Cinnamon appeared on the King Tut's stage at the TRNSMT festival (a non-camping replacement for T in the Park) on Glasgow Green, In September, he released his first album Erratic Cinematic, funded via the PledgeMusic platform which rose to the number 1 spot in the UK iTunes chart for singer-songwriters and 6th overall. On the back of the album's release, he announced a show at the Barrowland Ballroom to take place in December, This achievement – a first for an unsigned artist – later earned him a place in the 'Barrowland Hall of Fame' alongside the likes of Glasgow son Frankie Miller, Noel Gallagher, David Bowie and Ocean Colour Scene. In October, he was presented with a "Great Scot Award" for entertainment, following previous winners of the category such as Paolo Nutini and Kevin Bridges. In December it was confirmed he would be returning to TRNSMT in 2018, this time on the main stage. Following his main stage performance at TRNSMT 2018, his debut album entered the Scottish Albums Chart, peaking at no. 7 in July 2018. The early months of 2018 were dominated by a sold-out Scottish tour, followed by several dates across the rest of Britain and Ireland, with some gigs moved to higher capacity venues due to the demand. During one performance in Inverness, he briefly stopped playing to confront a member of the audience who had thrown a drink onto the stage. On 28 June 2018, two days before the event, the organisers of TRNSMT announced that Cinnamon's performance at the festival had been moved to a later, higher profile time slot (benefitting from J Hus's cancellation). He was also booked to play at the RiZE Festival (the replacement of the long-running V Festival) and the Tartan Heart Festival (Belladrum) during August 2018.

A further four gigs were announced for the coming December in Glasgow, including on Christmas Eve; those also sold out. Some complained to Cinnamon via social media about the prices of tickets available on resale sites, leading him to respond publicly "If you think I want some corporate goon reselling my ticks for 10x the asking price you've lost it. If you think I'm somehow involved or can stop it when the biggest bands in the world can't do anything about it then you're misinformed at best". Further December 2018 shows in Dundee, Aberdeen and Kilmarnock were later announced.

Following a run of arena shows supporting The Courteeners, Cinnamon announced his own England and Ireland tour. Cinnamon headlined a stage at Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2018/19 street party. In January 2019, he played two gigs in Amsterdam. In February, he was announced as one of the Friday main stage performers at the forthcoming TRNSMT event in July, On 12 July, it was announced that he would be performing at the new P&J Live venue in Aberdeen on Saturday 23 November, which subsequently broke the record for highest attendance at a Scottish indoor event at 15,000 attendees, and two shows at the SSE Hydro in his hometown of Glasgow on Friday 20 December. The arena tour was further extended throughout venues in England and Ireland with all 125,000 tickets selling out in advance. In December, Cinnamon supported Liam Gallagher during his Australian tour as well as playing his own shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

In November 2019, Cinnamon announced his second album named The Bonny would be released on 17 April 2020 on his own label Little Runaway. Alongside the album announcement, Cinnamon revealed that he will play the biggest show of his career at the 50,000+ capacity Hampden Park, becoming the first Scottish act to headline the national stadium. Tickets went on sale on 15 November 2019 and were sold out within hours. On 11 February 2020, it was announced that Gerry Cinnamon would perform the penultimate slot at Reading and Leeds festival in August 2020; the festivals were later rescheduled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Cinnamon went on to play the penultimate slot at Reading and Leeds Festival in August 2021.

Gerry Cinnamon's second studio album, The Bonny, released on 17 April 2020 debuted at number one on the UK and Irish Albums Charts. The album was also the fastest-selling vinyl of the year and the third biggest-selling UK album released in 2020. Cinnamon was scheduled to tour the United States for the first time as well as join the Dropkick Murphys and Rancid as special guest on their May 2020 tour, pending the status of the COVID-19 outbreak there. On 21 May 2020, Cinnamon announced that due to the coronavirus pandemic, he had moved the dates for his UK and Ireland tour to May and June 2021.

Continued success (2021–present) Gerry spent 2021-2022 playing his biggest shows to date. His 350,000-capacity UK and Ireland tour, originally due to happen in 2020, included shows at Birmingham and Manchester Arenas, London's Alexandra Palace, the 25,000 capacity Malahide Castle, Dublin, and Musgrave Park Stadium, Cork. He also headlined at Swansea's Singleton Park, the second biggest show ever held in the Welsh city, and set the record as the first artist to sell out three headline shows at the Belsonic, Belfast, playing to over 60,000 fans.

Cinnamon was due to play Shaky Knees Music Festival on 30 April 2022, but show organizers announced on April 18 that he would not be performing. No details were forthcoming. The tour concluded with two homecoming shows at Hampden Park. With these shows, playing to over 100,000 people, Cinnamon was the first independent act and first Scot to sell out multiple nights at the national stadium.

The ‘Live at Hampden Park’ live album was released a year later being Gerry’s first live album and it contained all 20 songs from the Saturday show however the CD specially contained the Sunday version of ‘Canter’ alongside the other 20 Saturday songs. Cinnamon remained relatively silent until November 2023 where he announced that he would be headlining TRNSMT 2024 and playing as a co-headliner at the Reading and Leeds Festival 2024. Cinnamon also was to play Electric Picnic in Ireland and By the Pond in Norway.

As of July 2026, Gerry Cinnamon's most recent social media post to Instagram in October 2024 contained a Reading and Leeds highlights collage with a message below stating, “Wee Reading and Leeds vid - forgot to post it. In studio tracking new album. Hope everybody’s good. Big love Gx”.

Views on the music industry He has encouraged aspiring artists to believe in themselves despite a lack of expensive backing,

Released: 28 September 2017 Label: LR Records (MD2020), (001) LP Formats: CD, DL, LP

BPI: Platinum

Released: 17 April 2020 Label: LR Records Formats: CD, DL, LP, cassette

Singles Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album SCO IRE "Hope Over Fear" 2014 — — — — "Kampfire Vampire" 2015 42 — — — BPI: Silver 11 — — 14 BPI: Silver "The Bonny" 6 76 — 13 BPI: Silver "Where We're Going" 2020 4 43 39 2 BPI: Platinum "Head in the Clouds" 30 60 65 7 "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other certified songs Title Year Certifications Album "Fickle McSelfish" 2015 BPI: Silver "What Have You Done" 2017 BPI: Gold Erratic Cinematic "Lullaby" BPI: Gold "Diamonds In The Mud" BPI: Gold "Fortune Favours The Bold" BPI: Silver