The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Tuesday 1st March 2016

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My Dad always told me: fall in love with your job and you'll never work a day in your life.

I've been writing poems since the age of five, and I've seen the meaning transform from fairies to angsty teenage thoughts and my discovery of how society is constructed.

I started with covers to determine my sound and I quickly became transfixed with the beauty of acoustic folk influenced music - think Bon Iver with hints of Fleetwood Mac. So I began to make my poems into songs, writing my first original ('Written Words') when I was eleven. I instantaneously fell in love with the process of writing my own material rather than performing others; I hardly put the pen down.

In the present moment, I have roughly forty originals catalogued, with the collection growing each day from chord structures and lyrics being pinned into my phone on an hourly basis. I've experimented with composing more uplifting and anthemic tunes, inspired by the formation of my band, The Edge.

I've fallen in love with music time and time again, and for that my Dad was right: I'll never work a day in my life.

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Jack has been tapping his feet to the beat since before he could even walk or talk.  His younger years have been full of music, dance and drama performances – if he wasn’t tinkling the ivories or singing for his supper, he was on stage rocking to the rhythm.

Now seventeen, his creative focus is firmly on his guitar and song writing passions.  Inspired by musicians such as Ben Howard, Lewis Watson and James Bay, Jack picked up the guitar around a year ago and has not stopped playing since.  Enthused by a number of poignant events over a short period, Jack’s songs have that personal touch while at the same time expressing sentiments with a broader reach.

Though he is certainly no stranger to the Local & Live festival, having supported it in one way or another, this will be his debut guitar and pub performance.

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