You've been in the music industry since, what, the early 2000's? What first prompted you
to decide that music was for you?
I was always mucking about in bands all through school and beyond. Then in about 2009-ish, I
went solo and started taking it seriously.
I think I always knew from pretty young I'd make music. I remember when I found out you could
do it as a career, for a living... I was like, 'What?! I can actually get paid to do this!?' Turns out
that wasn't true, you can't.
So true. Especially now. As Tim Harford said, “Musicians do it for love, not money.”
For your first album, Morning Brings a Flood, you played all of the instruments; except the
drums, strings, and horns. You also managed the recording and production. That's
massively impressive. Particularly for a first album. How many instruments do you play?
I can play most things a bit, usually pretty badly. If it makes a sound, the chances are I can knock
out a tune. Jack of all trades, master of none as they say. I taught myself production out of
necessity. I play guitar, piano, bass pretty well, everything else is just a blag. I've played a bunch
of weird instruments on my records, tambouras, melotrons, glockenspiels, bazookis, sitars etc.