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I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

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When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.

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I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

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Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, 'The guitarist is sick and couldn't make it... does anybody know how to play all the songs?' That was always my little dream. It was a massively inspiring thing to be in a space with live shows.

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Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.

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My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.

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When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

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To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

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I'm very close in age to my older brother, and we had a field at the end of the road where we could run around, climb trees, play football.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Musician

Born: September 4th, 1990

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