Who is sivu

I would love to get more of us back again [on stage] but I think this is definitely like how the songs were wrote and very much true to how they are on the record. CH: Do you ever set parameters when working on a new Sivu track? So whenever you go in [to the studio] with Charlie, any parameters get broken quite quickly. CH: What is a good song, in your opinion?

For me, it has to do something visually, it has to take me somewhere else and I think someone like Richard Hawley or you know, someone like a real romantic kind of thing. Have you heard of Matt Maltese before? CH: Was there a specific day that you can pinpoint when you realised you were working on album number two? The two days we spent on another track, it did end up going on the album but we pulled everything off it and that just seemed more exciting. So that was like the bed for the rest of the album.

I played session work for a while. Then I met my producer, Charlie Andrew, and we started work on the songs I had. My cousin bought a guitar once and I was obsessed with it. He stopped playing, so I was the only one that kept going. Oh man, it was shit. It was kind of punk, music, I guess.

The lyrics, evincing a preoccupation with the religious, point towards a sensitive individual, not a Liam Gallagher type. Although he is a self-confessed doubter, fully expect to hear a choir of Sivus on several of the tracks. Reading on mobile?

Click here to listen. His debut single, Better Man Than He, released in February, came accompanied by a video — possibly something of a first? It has been viewed half a million times on YouTube, indicating that the barometer hasn't quite swung away from quirky indie yet.

It's a disease that gets worse over time, but Sivu is determined to stay positive. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.

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