How did the hook up with Damon Albarn come about?
Someone in his office was a big supporter of my music and made Damon aware of me. Damon invited me down to Africa Express in Liverpool, it was a time when I was just breaking into the industry and just starting to meet people. He is so into his music and had started researching me before we met. When we met, he had an old piano backstage and straight away he just dropped something, I started to perform out of nowhere and then literally five minutes later we were on stage performing it together. Were you nervous meeting the Prime Minister recently? What did you talk about? Did Gordon Brown know your music? I wasn’t nervous meeting him actually, he seemed more nervous than me which was funny. We were talking about a lot of the issues to do with knife crime which is something that is close to my heart when I think about the state that some of the communities are in. Going to 10 Downing Street was really cool, something you only see on TV. The second time I went we got to go further into t
