for since its inception to where we are now with this first release?

Not long at all.

So I started...

I guess I kind of had the idea for ages, but it didn't sort of form until... sort of like last year and a bit of the year before where I'd moved from, I was living in the city center of Manchester and I moved to a suburb outside and I guess just with the move and sort of feeling inspired by new surroundings, I thought I'm going to teach myself how to record at home.

So it kind of started then because I was sort of teaching myself how to record by way of writing at the same time, instead of sort of following a manual, which, you know, can get quite boring.

I'd sort of just do both at the same time.

And then, yeah, I guess as I was sort of going on, writing and recording, I was like, yeah, I'm sort of getting to an album here.

Had these 10 songs on this album, right? And were they all kind of written around the same time? Is this kind of around the same era? Or were you kind of picking some ideas up from an earlier session or timeframe?

Mm-hmm.

Everybody that we work with in a professional capacity, like on the, the m- marketing PR side, overwhelmingly women.

So, like, all the business opportunities I get come from women.

Like, all the support I get in my life is pretty much women.

And yet as a straight man, I feel like every t- like I've, you know, I'm still a, a straight man and, like, I've hurt so many feeling...

Like I, I feel like a lot of the people I've hurt or, like, let down or deceived, whatever you wanna say, have been women, like in relationships or friendships.

Yeah, read us a little thing.

I'll just read you the, the ending is the, is the realization I came to about the idea of of course.

you've got an interesting job away from football.

Yeah, yeah.

So I started working at about 13, started doing some cricket coaching locally and then went on.

I enjoyed helping people through sport, especially young people.

Got a job in a SEN school near home.

And from there, I started as a TA, just finished my A-levels, I didn't have an interest in school, didn't have an interest in my results.

And yet somehow that's ended up with me in a school working.

Tell us a bit about that transition from everything