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Of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre—war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, sound of music and oliver! and all those musicals were on pianola rolls. i mean, it feels like a completely different generation. it's a mechanised piano. so then did you start emulating on the piano? were you ...

La la la la # i hope something you love catches on fire, phil # ding, dang, dong, i've written you this special song # to show how far i've come along # in my efforts to be more mature in the face # of negative feedback.# which really is a song about me not being able to take criticism. it is a complete mickey—take of my own insecurity, but on the way to pointing a spotlight on the fact that i'm pathetic about not being able to take that criticism... because it's quite extreme. it's very, very extreme. it talks about tearing pieces of his face meat off and making his children watch, you know...

He appealed to me to try and write less ironically, to not be, like, going, "oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually... changed my life. matilda sits in culture as...

Worse since that. he appealed to me to try and write less ironically to not be, like, going, "oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write." i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is, i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write, with words, to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually changed my life. matilda sit...

"oh, this is like a bit from les mis", or stop musically commenting on itself and stop textually commenting on itself. he was like, "just write..." i mean, he didn't put it in that many words. he just gave me a nudge in that direction. i realised what he was saying is, i didn't need to armour myself with meta, with irony, with satire. i could just write with words to try and elicit a genuine emotion out of the audience. and once he gave me permission to do that, it actually to do that, it actually... matilda sits in culture as something that altered british culture a tiny bit, and i contribute...