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relaxing space.” Complain as he might, this set up clearly worked for the budding band as it’s where they penned their first EP ‘Sum of Our Fears’ even managing to squeeze in some extra songs for safe keeping. The singer pondered for a second, fiddling with his hair again, finally tucking it behind his ear still as dishevelled as the first time he tried to tame it. “It was just our little desert island. It was during the Black Lives Matter protest and the pandemic is in full swing. We were in our little bubble on our journey to and from [the factory]; we’re seeing people en masse queuing and the protests are going on. Going into the factory to the sound sirens and just police everywhere. It was weird.”

Although Young opted to move back to his home town of Portsmouth in the last year, we reminisced about his time living in London. “I didn’t pay for tickets for gigs, ever. I was always just guests listed here or wherever. And I realised; “hey, if I can save on something that’s big”. London is so expensive.” Young’s guest list privileges took him to every gig he fancied- a highlight of that being The Last Shadow Puppets. “I was backstage and famous people were just knocking about. I was so nervous I just thought screw it I’m gonna get sh*t faced. I didn’t even end up watching the gig in the end. ” Young prefaced this next statement with; “I wish I could tell you more but I don’t want to sound like an asshole.” However, he did continue. “I saw Miles Kane who wanted my jacket. I said no, and just took the cigarette in his mouth and left.” He clarified that it was an ASOS £50 leather jacket that “just had a really nice cut.” He started to hesitate through the story, clearly slightly embarrassed trying to justify his drunken antics. “It was just one of these things where you’re confronted with musicians that you idolise and they have this aura of them being cool. And you’re wearing something that they want. It puts you in a position of power and you can’t not abuse that.” He elaborated “I don’t know when it came down to it whether he was being serious or if they were seeing what they could get away with.” He persisted; “Please don’t make me sound like an arsehole.” Message understood Adam.

As the interview drew to a close, Young looked towards the next year in music. “I’ve got so many goals that we need to start achieving.” He paused, pondering “But we want to just keep making a difference in a small way as a band. I don’t want much. As a band we’ve never said “we want to play Wembley Stadium in five years”- it doesn’t interest me that much.” Young rounded off his statement of intent with “I’d much rather connect with people at our gigs and see their relationship with our music on a personal level. But we’re still growing.”

Words by Charley Murfitt