Exclusive Interview


times. I think it should be natural; forcing stuff through would be the worst for me.


Do You Strive for Chart Success? Not really, the charts honestly don’t really occur to me. I think to achieve chart success you can’t play down television exposure. Something like the X-Factor has 10 million viewers (at least) and that is gonna give you sales. The other way of getting your music heard by a wider-audience is through fi lms and soundtracks. There so many specialist radio stations and ways to fi nd out about music personally that breaking through to mainstream success is very hard. In the past you had something like Top of Pops, where getting on the show would mean the public knew about you. That doesn’t really happen now.


I do believe in writing songs though, that are accessible, with good hooks and lyrics are very important of course.


What Advice Would You Give a Teenager Who Wants to Make it in Music?


Keep on writing songs, listen to as much music as you can, fi gure out why songs work or don’t work. It can take a while to to get everything together. It took me 3 to 4 years to get together the songs I have now.


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