The cafe’s silent. “Perfect” I think. “My s****y phone mic might actually pick up the conversation this time. As the interviewee walks through the door, a couple sit nearby and start loudly discussing the plethora of the substances they’ll be ingesting on the weekend. Joe and I snigger like schoolboys; we’re off to a good start.

Joe Mylward’s musical odyssey began early on; singing in a youth choir organised by his mum and performing Snow Patrol covers with his older sister. In his early teens, idolising Ed Sheeran and other chart toppers, he took the leap into penning his own material and fitting it into the loop based cover sets he performed around his home town of Alton, Hampshire.

However, after releasing a self-produced debut EP, moving to Guildford, Surrey and surrounding himself with a host of fresh peers, it’s safe to say a lot has changed…