I was just a student at Sixth Form college in Basingstoke when I wrote Good Tradition. At the time, I wasn’t really telling anyone I was even writing songs. I had made them from a young age, but I didn’t know you could actually have a job as a songwriter.

There was an album I was listening to a lot at that age called Nina Simone Sings The Blues by Nina Simone, and one song called Real Real in particular. ...