John Newman

Max Watt's, Sydney, Australia

The question on everybody’s lips after hearing that track was who sings the astonishing vocal which sounded like Otis Redding might after gargling glass.

O2 Empire Shepherds Bush, London, UK

With a sound much older than his years, his vocals have attracted global attention, resulting in his single Love Me Again topping the charts and racking up over 80,000,000 plays on YouTube.

The thought of those discs (and unless you are 10 they will have been circular) might elicit a smile or a shudder or some wry remix of the two.

We had the worst journey to get here the 23-year-old jokingly moans near the start of his sold-out gig recounting a tale of two broken-down tour buses during the day of 2013's notorious storm.

Four songs into his set in the beautiful surroundings of Dalby Forest on the North York Moors, a sweat-drenched John Newman pauses to address a mixed age audience who’ve been enthusiastically bopping along to some of the most danceable numbers in his catalogue.