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The Pop Star That Disappeared.

From the picturesque village of Llanellen to the busy city centre of London, Huw was miles away from family and with this came his downwards spiral into alcohol and crazy nights out. Nevertheless he's now back "bigger and better!" This pop star who had been destined for the stars since he was only 11 years old, ditching school for guitar and singing lessons every week, had finally made it until suddenly he couldn’t be found. Read on in Vinyl’s exclusive interview.

Vinyl had just sat down at a small corner booth in a café in Camden when in came Huw looking extremely well for someone that had been MIA for the past two months. I was pleasantly surprised by his neatly combed hair and his smart attire of a long blue trench coat, a smart white shirt with some, brand new looking, brown suede Chelsea boots. He greets me with a warm smile and a handshake before joining me in the booth. We speak about his childhood and his lack of interest in education. He tells me that music had been his passion since he was 11 years old. Skipping class became the Tuesday and Thursday usual for him and he dropped out of school at the age of 16 to try to make a name for himself in the music world.  When he was 17 his father bought home a guitar after supporting him and his love of music for years even though Huw’s mother did not. After the small talk about where he grew up and what drink the two of us wanted, he then sits back in his seat and we move onto the intended topic. We started by chatting about how successful he had become in such a short space of time and how he had a fan following like no other. Then we spoke about where everything went wrong.  ‘’I started going out more in the night, drinking too much and I would be walking around the streets of Soho at 3am trying to get back to my apartment.’’ After this statement his head tilts down so he was staring at his lap and I knew this talk was upsetting him, though he carries on. ‘’I guess that the paparazzi noticed the pattern of me being out at such early hours of the morning near the bustling clubs of Soho. They started photographing me and publishing articles that were completely untrue.’’ After this Huw looks up and sits forward. ‘’Things just got too much, the stories about me were so unfair, I was only trying to fit in with what all the big pop stars were doing. So I went into hiding for two months back with my family in LLanellen in the Welsh countryside, just to get the paparazzi off my back and find someone else to pick on…’’ his famous smirk then lights up his face as he continues ‘’…but now I’m back and with my new album MIA to celebrate.’’  For the rest of the course of our conversation this boyish smirk does not disappear off his face. We chat about the dates that his album and single are coming out and he orders another drink. We chatted about where he is going to go from now, ‘’I don’t plan on going into hiding again anytime soon [laughs] I mean I never meant to in the first place!’’ He made eye-contact ‘’…there’s no getting rid of me now, I’m back, bigger and better!’’ We wrap up the interview and he thanks me for helping him to open up as we are the first people who he has spoken to since his disappearance. After a small chat about his second album, tour and his new single, we told him to look out for on his tour later this year and he even offered us some free backstage tickets so we can ‘catch up again’!

Huw’s second album ‘MIA’ including the new hit single ‘Lost and Found’, that hit the top of charts a matter of days after release, is out on February the 21^st along with dates for his UK 2017 tours shortly after. Head over to www.Vinyl.com for the dates and links to purchasing tickets. We’re going to be on there ordering ours as soon as they come out! 

Words : Alice Kent