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But I remember being, you know, six or seven years old and just really wanting to create something out of nothing with this tool.

Me and my friend at the time, a guy called Callum, decided to start a band.

And I think we called ourselves the Abujas because it was like I'd looked at a map and it was like a city in Africa.

And I was like, that's a really cool name.

And that's what we called our band.

And we wrote a song.

I don't remember the song.

But that was the first time I remember thinking, this is fun.

But I didn't really equate to anything until I properly picked up the guitar around the age of 15 and probably wrote the first song around 16, 17.

Yeah, my brother gave me a Korg 8-track and me and my friend William, who we started a band called The Eraserheads with after the David Lynch film,

Yeah, we would just sit around and in the middle of nowhere in the countryside and sort of make songs.

The first song I wrote that I was proud of was called Walking Down the Road.

And it was about Joe Strummer.

It was just after he passed.

And I was really obsessed with Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros record Streetcore.

Yeah, it was a song about dealing with the grief of this person I've never met, but I felt like I knew dying and how I'm going to continue walking down the road and try and continue to be inspired by someone that's not there anymore.

But yeah, we recorded it on this little eight track and I was pretty chuffed with it.

Yeah, I mean, my mother would really want me to paint with her.

And I think it was such a cool thing that she did because I was very... And I still have sort of an anxious, slow, short attention span sort of energy.

So when I would sit next to her and watch her paint, I would do something and it'd take five minutes and I'd be like, I'm done.