It’s remarkably rare for an artist to burst onto the music scene with a silhouette so recognisable that the album art on his second-ever single, Hold Back the River, featured nothing more than an outline of a pinched fedora and the suggestion of some long, flowing locks.
Such was the success of the young busker from Hitchin, who had spent his days after university frequenting the open mic scene of Brighton – trailing from one pub to the next (oftentimes they were next door to one another) guitar in hand, fedora bought on a whim locally firmly on his head.
