<\/a><\/p>\nHow long have you been playing guitar for? How long into playing did you start writing?<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been playing guitar for probably about five years. I started writing some pretty naff kind of love songs that will never be played ever in my life! After college I had a kind of singer\/songwriter vibe. And then about 2 years ago, a mate introduced me to my old manager and I was playing in her kitchen, and she started crying, she said listen I want to take this on, and I thought flip! These might actually be quite good!<\/p>\n
Amazing. You\u2019ve had a pretty busy summer, you having a good festival run?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Yeah! In the last two years we\u2019ve done Lovebox, Glasto, Lollopoloza, Kendal Calling\u2026 we had a headline slot at the Cheltenham jazz festival for the Radio Two thing; that was amazing, Great Escape last year, then The Alt Escape this year. When I say we, I mean me and my band, not the royal \u2018we\u2019 (laughing) there\u2019s been a few, and I\u2019m probably forgetting some really big ones right now.<\/p>\n
What were the crowds like? Were you playing to people who initially didn\u2019t know your stuff?<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s growing, it\u2019s a process, but, it\u2019s fantastic I was really fortunate that people were really up for it and really got into the songs. Like we were doing the opening set on the Saturday at Glasto, at half 11\/12 in the morning, and what blew me away was we started playing and as the set was getting going, I could just see people coming out of their tents at 11:30 in the morning to watch me, it was crazy, I think I\u2019ll remember that for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n