I don't know,
I always just like, I liked singing at school,
do you know what I mean?
My nan, like, helped me.
She had a piano in her spare room
so I used to just go in there all the time and play it.
I had like a love for it.
I kind of really like classical music
before though that was like the first thing I really liked.
When I got like fifteen I was kind of
like yeah like jazz like it’s the way.
I’m not like a singer-songwriter
I’m more of producer who sings kind of thing, you know?
Sounds like wings
Do you know what I mean?
That sound
I was never into the kind of crazy
chords changing like constantly jazz
I was more into the very slow
kind of more ballad-y
kind of jazz.
That kind of like late 50's west coast jazz,
that kind of Bill Evans, Chet Baker
It’s just serious.
I think that helped more shape
my music than anything else.
You do go a bit crazy after while
listening to the same thing over and over again.
Yeah, I've lived here for about a year and a half.
I really like the area.
The park’s at the end of the road which is like amazing, man.
It’s a good place to like walk pets.
I kind of like talking about things
like personal struggles.
But in a romantic,
you know, sense.
There’s beauty in simplicity
you know?
It has to kind of flow really quickly
otherwise it’s just going to sound a bit too kind of forced.
If I don’t complete that song in like two days
I know it’s not a song that’s gonna work.
I’m playing Latitude
I’m playing, uh, Reeperbahn in, uh,
Hamburg in September.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Jeez. That’ll be sick.
Yo, like I would prefer not to like perform
like live gigs because
I have like mad, kind of,
do you know what I mean, like, uh
anxiety levels and shit, you know that
like so yeah it’s just kind of like
every single time I like finish a show
I always think
why don’t I do this more often?
Yeah that’s what I’m saying.
But the longer I wait between shows
and I think about and I think about it
and I think about it.
You got it
I reckon it’s important that my friends like my music
I hope so, yeah.
We all listen to the same music.
We all draw inferences from the same things,
so, yeah.
We like the thing each other create.
There’s no need to, like,
go searching anywhere else for it, like,
we chill together
we make music together
It’s not like a business
It’s just, uh,
exactly, just a group of friends
doing what they wanna to do.
I don’t know if it kind of molds the sound
like people say it does but
I don’t know, it’s debatable.
It’s a good area to be in
It’s an important area to be in, like,
there’s definitely a scene growing here
There’s more of, like, a communal feel,
I don’t know,
It’s just like a just like a better vibe you know?
And I think that just comes across in everybody’s
artwork and music that comes around here.
You’re surrounded by different shit
and by different people
and different walks of life and that like
affects you personally
so like it effects songwriting I guess.
I think it might have made my music a bit darker.
I’ll always live in London.
I have nothing inside me that wants to, like,
travel too far.