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3 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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In this conversational YouTube interview, The Scary Guy (Speaker B) recounts how he was invited by Tom Rylands, lead singer of The Lottery Winners, to tattoo the singer live on stage during Rylands' first stadium headliner concert in Leeds. The collaboration began after Rylands saw The Scary Guy’s charitable tattoo videos online and reached out to befriend him. The event drew a crowd of about 13,000 people, and The Scary Guy tattooed the name “Lee” on Rylands as a personal marker of the historic moment. The dialogue highlights the excitement of performing a tattoo in front of a massive audience, the significance of the milestone for both the artist and the tattooist, and the spontaneous nature of the opportunity.

Hello, I'm going to speak to someone today who usually he's sitting in his studio in Wigan watching the world go by, but on Saturday he was sitting in front of thousands of people in Leeds doing a tattoo.
I'm good, how are you doing?
I'm good, good, good, good, good.
This is The Scary Guy and I'm hanging out with Claire, my friend. Tom Rylands, who's the lead singer for The Lottery Winners, which is a an incredible band here. He saw one of my videos and said, "Oh, this guy is doing some good work around the world. He's helping people." So he sent me a message and said he wants to be my mate and he wants to be my friend. And I thought, okay, that's cool. I can handle that, I guess. And I didn't realize they had a concert until he wrote me back and says, "I've got an idea. I think it would be really cool if he would tattoo me while I'm on stage during the concert." It was incredible.
What was it like for you sitting there on that stage with thousands of people watching you just doing a tattoo?
There was 13,000 people in the audience. It was his first time that he was a headliner in a stadium concert back in his hometown. I think he really wanted to mark it for history's sake on himself.
And you tattooed Lee, didn't you?
Yeah, the best I could because I only had 2 minutes. I just got a picture of 4 young men with their arms all together like this, and all of them had the name Lee on their arms. So I think maybe he started a little bit of a trend, you know.