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Born 7 June 1993, George Ezra is a singer-songwriter from Hertford, England, UK, who focuses on the folk, blues, and rock genres.

His strong upbeat rhythms and Ezra’s deep soulful voice that has drawn comparison to artists like Ray LaMontagne Ezra’s hit single “Budapest” has reached platinum status in several countries and he has toured around with notable musicians like Lianne La Havas and Tom Odell.

Prior to rising to fame, Ezra created the word “petan” as a means of bonding with fans — a word completely made up by Ezra and his friends with no real meaning. Fans devoured it and still use it to this day in any and every situation.

The petan of Ezra’s style is his voice: sonorous, deep, and growling without sounding angry or disheveled. His voice sounds like it’s coming from another era — an era when baritones belted, and bluesmen hopped boxcars around the American South.

Ezra became interested in music at a young age. He grew up listening to the American folk musicians Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, whose music greatly influenced him. Before he released any EPs or albums, Ezra played the BBC Introducing Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, where he showcased his musical talents to a large audience. In October 2013, he released his first EP, Did You Hear the Rain?, which was released by Sony Music Entertainment. The EP featured the songs “Did You Hear the Rain” and “Budapest,” which received constant airplay on BBC Radio 1.

In 2014, Ezra was starting to break through into the spotlight, with MTV, Vevo, and iTunes referring to him as an artist to look out for. BBC’s “Sound of…,” an annual list of rising musical talent that is conducted by industry figures and music critics, listed George Ezra No. 5 on the list.

Ezra released his second EP, Cassy O, in March 2014, followed by his debut studio album Wanted on Voyage that June. The album received positive reviews, with most critics commenting on its simple but sweet presentation and Ezra’s talented singing abilities. The album was also commercially successful, climbing to the No. 1 spot on the UK Albums Chart and placed on the charts in numerous countries like Australia, Ireland, Germany, and Switzerland.

Ezra has been quick to launch into the music scene and has immediately captured everybody’s attention with his catchy songwriting.

Later in 2014, Ezra appeared at the Glastonbury Extravaganza as a support for none other than Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. The 2015 Brit Awards nominated him four times over for Best British Male Solo Artists, British Breakthrough Artist, Best British Single, and Best British Album.

Ezra started off 2015 by opening for Sam Smith and Hozier on two tours of North America. 2015 also saw Ezra perform on Saturday Night Live, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Norwich, at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival, and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

In 2017, Ezra announced a 10-date tour of the UK and Ireland that he stressed was to be “top secret” and meant to showcase new material. The tour touched places like Derry, Dublin, Rhyl, Cardiff, and Barnstaple, among other spots. Sure enough, he began releasing singles for the album Staying at Tamara’s months later. The single “Shotgun” even became Ezra’s first number-one track released in his home country as well as Australia and Ireland.

Staying at Tamara’s came out on May 18, 2018. The momentum carried him through the end of the year and well into the next. Just over a year after its release, he headlined the Neighbourhood Weekender 2019. Ending the two-day festival on the main stage, he played hits like “Budapest,” “Blame It On Me,” “Barcelona,” and “Shotgun.”

Some artists thrive on quantity; Ezra is one who thrives on quality. It’s taken nearly four years for fans to be graced with a new album, but on January 12, 2022, he teased them with a new website called Gold Rush Kid. This was a holding page for an upcoming album. On January 28, he released “Anyone for You (Tiger Lily),” the first single from his third album. The album dropped on June 10 via Columbia Records.

It was a masterstroke; an album written and produced entirely by Ezra and his collaborator Joel Pott in London. He performed at Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in June that year as the album topped charts around the globe.

The Financial Times once wrote that Ezra’s music “approximates rock…but without any hint of danger, or unpredictability.” In other words, he has found his style and he’s digging deep into it. He’s certainly one of the most powerful new voices on the music scene.

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I seldom write reviews for anyone / anything when a follow-up service is requested, as is done by Songkick, but I enjoyed George's show so much that I feel compelled to write and maybe encourage anyone who might be on the fence about seeing him perform sometime.

George has an amazingly warm and positive spirit about him, along with that voice that sounds years and years older than he is - you'd never expect a baby-faced kid who probably can't even grow facial hair (I'm a blond guy, too, so I feel his pain), to sound the way he did.

All throughout his set, he cracked smiles as his band played, and responded to the crowd, he told jokes, and MAN THAT BOY CAN SING.

I went to the show with my girlfriend, and she (and other female audience members) kept gushing that 'HE'S SO CUTE!' - but more than that, the dude's a great singer, and when you see someone who's as genuinely happy when they're up on that stage, performing their music, it makes you feel good inside, too.

Go see this guy. He'll feel good, and then he and his band will make you feel good (too).

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Sun was shining, picnic made, me and my daughter Alex headed off to Cannock Chase Forest. Easy to find, parked up & joined the queue. Everyone friendly & chatty, got through bag check and chose our spot. Support was Shadowlark - not heard them before, ok sounded a bit like British Fleetwood Mac. George came on at 9.00, straight into Cassy O, that got (some) of the crowd going. Then a couple of tracks from Staying at Tamaras (he had a chat with the crowd in between songs which was nice) then some more tracks from previous album, by 9.30 most of the crowd were up on their feet dancing and singing along. Sound was very good and his band were excellent. I would definitely recommend going, it was a brilliant evening just a shame it finished so early. ( he was supposed to be on till 10.30, but finished at 10.15)Only negative point was the total shambles trying to get out at the end. All the staff we had seen earlier seemed to have disappeared and it became a free for all with cars cutting everyone up and a couple of very near misses.

George Ezra is one of those annoyingly talented singer songwriters who has achieved a huge amount of success over the last year with his chart topping singles, gaining critical acclaim from some of the music industry’s biggest names such as Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens. His fantastically successful song “Casio” charted in the UK, Belgium and The Netherlands, and his sophomore single “Budapest” became an international hit making it to number one in Austria and even New Zealand. Consequently, his album, “Wanted on Voyage” became a top twenty in ten countries. Not bad for 21 years of age. He can carry it off live with great style too, sporting hit vintage hollowbody guitar. This T in the Park are absolutely loving the vibe and they go absolutely wild when he plays his hit song “Budapest”. They sing every single word, making this vibe almost like a campire for about 10,000 people. Well done Ezra… you talented and jammy git.

being relatively new to the George Exra hype I didn't really know what to expect, what I didn't expect was to be blown away by his voice and stage presence. He commanded the crowds attention without being cocky or overbearing, he moved just enough to keep us interested but not enough to make us dizzy. His voice is so mature for a 21 year old, he didn't appear nervous at all despite a reasonably large and busy crowd. His support act Hanna Leess was a real surprise, I never heard of her before but I was really impressed, she has an incredible voice and real guts to stand on stage alone with her guitar at such a young age, she got more than a few offers when she mentioned she had nowhere to stay yet and needed a couch to crash on. The sound at LKA longhorn was also great, no dodgy feedback or distortion, all in all it was a great gig, I'll definitely be getting George's album and following Hannas career closely!

George Ezra put on a great show support acts were good also can't really fault the music side of the show but there could have been better organised seating arrangements and for the merchandise shop . Seating was unreserved which ment if you had to bring child to toilet you weren't guaranteed your seat would still be there on way back would be Better for numbered seating . The merchandise shop was on the pitch. Anyone with seating tickets were refused entry onto the pitch to the shop resulting in a disappointed child before the concert started . But I didn't give up after a few attempts to get to the merchandise shop we we're finally let onto the pitch. Got our merchandise and returned to the seating area . Overall a good show. Like the way George Ezra told the story of how the songs came about before he sang them really had the crowd interested would definitely go to see him again

The concert was far beyond expectation! His vocals are flawless and he manages to make a whole audience go silent with the power of his voice when there's nothing left on stage but him and a guitar. Additionally, his band is great and he's funny and engaging with the audience.

It's hard to believe that this kid not only has such a powerful soul voice but can already carry a concert like a pro.

The show was not that long: one hour exactly but then again, he only has one album out and one truly hit song. This ends up being a point in his favor as you feel satisfied with all that was delivered in that hour but also makes one want to follow his career for years to come.

Extra treat: an unexpected and yet all sorts of awesome cover of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".

When is George back in town?!

The concert in Hamburg was very well organized, I enjoyed the side effects behind the singing, the atmosphere on the whole was very chilled, the band was dancing and having great time, and that joy they exuded into the public.

Amongst the critic moments I found George himself could have invested more on the whole, sing more and tell a bit more about the history behind his songs. He is not a one hit star, so why only hold onto the hits and keep the half the repertoire out? And - that sounds demanding but still - do connect more to your auditorium, please. You have said no word about Hamburg, neither you asked if anyone has a b-day or whatever else could singers can mention... a bit disappointing performance. Though the singing was great, no question.

When i first heard George Ezra was going on tour i immediately looked up the dates and saw he was coming to my hometown. The only thing was the date wasn't for the date of my concert, but three days prior. I was so upset, but luckily i kept scrolling and found out he was in fact coming the day i had purchased tickets for.

When he came on stage it was an absolutely phenomenal performance to watch. You could tell he was having a lot of fun and was so happy to be there. He is amazing live and connected well with the audience by giving some personal anecdotes to go along with the song.

10/10 would recommend to anyone who wants to have a good time and see a unique artist play. Next time i hope to see him at his own concert, not just as the opening act.

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George Ezra doesn't just perform, he shares. With the first number he got the Royal Oak, Michigan audience involved and shared the song and stage with us. His stories gave the songs depth, then the songs were performed with feeling and our understanding.

George and his band were excellent. After involving the audience at the beginning, they kept us involved throughout - singing, applauding, and enjoying every minute.

Having seen George here in 2015, I was concerned that his success would change him. It did, but not in a negative way. He seemed more confident and mature as a performer, and the audience was better prepared to enjoy his offering.

A great show.

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Interview George Ezra : “This is the most bonkers time of my life”

George ezra likes travelling, taking the piss out of himself and avoiding seriousness like it’s the plague. all in the name of escapism..

Words: Jamie Milton Photos: Emma Swann 23rd June 2014

Several audiences in Europe have just witnessed George Ezra play for the first time. ‘Budapest’ - a song devoted to a city he hadn’t even bothered visiting at the time of writing - is striking gold in almost every European capital going. It’s one of the twenty most played songs on the radio (“It’s probably my mum in the kitchen,” is the explanation) and for the first time in his life, George is being treated like a star. He doesn’t like it.

“It’s weird seeing people treat you different. Doing a TV programme and there’s a runner, someone’s going ‘Do you need anything George?’ I’m like no, I know the tap’s there and water’s over there, if I need something I’ll get it',” he says, having just returned from a three month trip. “This came up in conversation when I was in Europe. They said, ‘You seem to take the piss a lot. Will some people be offended?’”

If Ezra’s beginning to be treated as serious business elsewhere in Europe, back in the UK he shouldn’t be under any illusion: people expect big things over here, too. But one of the underlying reasons why the acoustic guitar-wielding George stands out in a crowd of fellow strummers, is because he does - with every inch of his being - take the piss.

Word’s just got round that he’s allowed to have a backdrop and a new drum skin on stage. The drum skin will “definitely just be #petan,” a hashtag that’s followed George around from the very beginning. Nobody really knows what the word means - not even the man himself. “I made it up in Bristol and we used it as a word for anything; positive, negative, past, present, future. It was all about the eyes - how you said it.”

"I don’t get why people take themselves seriously."

— George Ezra

A conversation was had about the backdrop also simply saying “#petan”. No album title. No cover art. Just a made up word that somehow bonds this twenty-one-year-old songwriter and his fans. In the build up to the release of ‘Wanted On Voyage’, his chart-bothering first album, every tiny detail is being planned out. George knew he didn’t want the album to be self-titled. The artwork couldn’t just be a standard portrait shot of him looking forlorn, like a traveller about to be set free. He’s also planning merch. Attempts to sell baboon masks on stands have gotten off to a shaky start. “I’ve started a character called Aztec Dave,” explains George. “He’s made a few appearances. I bought a baboon mask for £18 in Edinburgh - maybe that’s why I had such a good time in Edinburgh - and I called him Aztec Dave. We’re trying to sell them at gigs.”

There doesn’t appear to be a serious bone in George’s body, but he puts it well by saying: “What I don’t take seriously is myself, because I’ve lived with myself for twenty years. I know there’s no point in taking myself seriously. I don’t get why people take themselves seriously. People who complain about their passport photos - that’s definitely you. That’s what you look like.”

If there’s one thing this musician takes wholly seriously, it’s the songs he’s writing. Yes, they’ll contain inside jokes, tongue-in-cheek references. A track about the fleeting passing of time? Sure, he’ll name that ‘Cassy O'’ (following a quick legal check with the actual watch company - they wanted to make sure they weren’t being ripped off). But deep down behind the hashtags and the retweets, there’s some genuine meaning to what George is doing.

‘Wanted On Voyage’ documents the time he went travelling on his own, penning songs as he discovered new cities. It possesses everything but the typical “gap yah” mentality. There’s no banter cruise, no regaled tales of winding up naked and bleary eyed on a Prague riverbank with a lost passport. This trip ended up being the basis behind the debut, almost by default. When Ezra started recording the album back in November, he was travelling from Bristol to London everyday. There was no great inspiration in that routine. “I can’t inspire an album on a First Great Western train,” he says. Instead George looked back to a point in his life “when I wanted to prove something and to do something new.”

The travelling spirit’s still there. A recent string of UK and European tour dates totalled up to almost sixty shows in two and a bit months. The sense of it being a slog only cropped up when George ended up in venues without a kettle (“Our rider is pretty much fruit, a kettle and some honey and lemon. I bought myself a kettle. A proper one. I was making a point about it.”) He feels most at home on the road. “I’m not going to be able to do this in fifty years, in this way. It’s an opportunity,” he says.

In part a tribute to the record’s themes, George took fans on a great big trip to - you guessed it - Budapest. The Ezra Express, as it’s been labelled, picked up fellow #petan-heads at various train stops across Europe. Competition winners had access, although any old sod could have hopped on board. “You can’t police sanity,” George jokes, but the whole trip went off without a hitch. His fans are lovely people, not obsessive hashtaggers. The same applies for his shows. “Firstly they’re really mixed age-wise,” George lists off. “And secondly they’re really chilled out. One thing that the tour’s been is actually really comforting. I’ve realised that the fan base, as it were, the crowd that I have - are lovely.”

When George is back home, strung out from travels, he reaches out to his creature comforts. “Feet up. Bath. Gogglebox,” he lists, referring at the end to his favourite TV show. “If someone says, ‘Hey, let’s watch this programme of people watching programmes’ you’d be like ‘What the fuck has this world come to?’. But the humbling thing is, you kind of fall in love with all the couples and the characters. I’m not very patriotic at all, but I’m happy to share with these guys.” Ok, so maybe that’s two things George is willing get serious about: music, and programmes about people watching programmes.

Taken from the new DIY Weekly, available to download for iPhone, iPad and Android or read online now. George Ezra's debut album 'Wanted on Voyage' will be released on 30th June via Columbia Records; he'll play Latitude this July.

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George Ezra : The Pursuit Of Happiness

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George Ezra has announced three new live dates to follow his arena tour across the UK and Ireland this Autumn.

The “Budapest” singer will visit London’s O2 Arena , Killarney’s INEC Arena and Dublin ’s 3Arena in spring next year.

Tickets are still available for Ezra’s autumn arena tour, which begins on 13 September in Liverpool and ends on 2 October in Sheffield, visiting cities such as Dublin and Glasgow in between.

The 29-year-old is just off the back of a headline performance at Finsbury Park, for which he enlisted support from the likes of Blossoms, Holly Humberstone and emerging artist Mychelle.

The announcement also comes after the BRIT winner released his third studio album Gold Rush Kid, which features chart topper “Green, Green Grass”.

Read below for more information on how to get tickets for the UK and Ireland shows next March.

How to get tickets

Tickets will go on sale at 10am UK time on Friday (22 July) and are available through Ticketmaster .

Demand is expected to be high as the London O2 Arena show will be the first Ezra has done since this summer.

Tickets are still available for Ezra’s Liverpool, Birmingham and Aberdeen shows this Autumn.

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‘I’ve moved on, and then some’: singer George Ezra on fame, friendship and finding new inspiration

G eorge Ezra walks into the Old Barge, the Hertford pub that’s been his lifelong local, and within three minutes his song, Budapest is on the stereo. “They’re so supportive here,” he says, with shy gratitude, as he stoops under a curtain into a back room. Ezra first came here after school, searching for a loo. At 16, he started working behind the bar. When friends come home for Christmas, this is where they meet, “and where we would have always met”. It still smells the same. (Currently: of yesterday’s log fire, a comforting contrast to the January damp.) Over the next few hours, locals stick their heads in to wave hello to their friendly neighbourhood pop star, drinking lime cordial and soda in crisp double denim, and he greets them all back by name.

This is the approachable figure Ezra, who is 28, cuts in most settings, whether playing a radiant set at Glastonbury or warmly chatting about mental health on his podcast. A music college dropout born George Ezra Barnett, he emerged in 2014 as part of a cohort of middle-class British boys with acoustic guitars. Unlike most of them, he wasn’t lachrymose or ambition-crazed. Instead he had a good-weird sense of humour and a big voice, cultivated after this ardent blues fan became obsessed with the US blues singer Lead Belly .

Ezra’s label sent him Interrailing to inspire his first album, Wanted on Voyage , and he famously saw much of Europe except Budapest, the name of his breakthrough single. That song set the George Ezra template: primary-coloured bonhomie, a yearning for escape, an awed insistence that he’d give up anything for a girl. For album two, Staying at Tamara’s , he Airbnb’d in Barcelona and came back with the rabidly catchy singles Shotgun and Paradise. Both of his albums hit No 1 and spent 336 weeks in the charts (and counting) between them: rare numbers that put you in the Sheeran leagues.

Having always used trips as creative inspiration, Ezra intended to write album three as he walked from Land’s End to John o’Groats in the spring of 2020. Instead, he spent five weeks of lockdown alone in London before family and friends convinced him to move back to Hertfordshire. For two months, during that mood-spiking heatwave, he lived in a van on a friend’s farm. “It was dogs that needed walking and fields that needed mowing,” he remembers dreamily. He soon bought his own place. Being back has done him the world of good. He loves community: “When you can walk out your front door and the whole town feels like an extension of a back garden.” And though he knows this might seem weird – regressive or stuck – “I feel comfortable in the fact that I’ve moved on, and then some.”

Ezra says change is beautiful, and it suits him. His strong features sit more comfortably on a man’s face. When his hair grew out during lockdown, he swept it back and realised this was his look. (He has laughably nice skin, another recent change: “I started washing! I said to my sister, ‘Washing your skin really makes a difference doesn’t it?’ She was like, ‘Fuck off, yes.’”) On his first two albums, he often sang about escaping and giving it all up; the transformations on his lovely third album, Gold Rush Kid , are less about tearing up the script than recognising a moment as it’s happening, and discovering contentment within it.

It’s a steadier album, he says. The first time around, he relied on his travels for something to write about. Second time, he had seen the world – played New Year’s Eve in Tasmania – “and so then writing about crocodiles and dreaming becomes quite realistic”. This time, he says, it felt “honest and cool” to write about the everyday substance of his life: assignations in hotel rooms and bars, surrendering to a lover’s beauty on the dancefloor. On the big-chorused title track, he sings of “robbing the bank / Making a run for it and learning to dance” – winging it, basically. He had been thinking about the opportunists who rushed west in the 1850s and “understood it as people deciding: over there is something worth pursuing and it’s finite, so go and get it”. Ezra writes to reinforce the things he needs to hear and he has realised that this is the attitude he wants to cultivate towards his career and his life: “Remember: enjoy this.”

It is odd to hear that George Ezra – who wrote the lyric “bikini bottoms, lager tops, I could get used to this”, and sang it with a giddy whoop – needed that nudge. But his earlier, bright exterior concealed a bleak mindset. “In the past, when I’ve been the most intimidated and the most scared, it was really easy to tip over into nihilism and go, ‘Fuck it, it’s all going to end anyway, so what does it matter?’” he says bitterly. Perhaps that outlook has benefits, he considers. “But I don’t think I ever got there in a good way.”

He is a surprisingly careful conversationalist, taking long pauses to risk-assess any admission. I press him for examples of how he would self-sabotage, but he says it wouldn’t do him any good to go into detail. But he admits he almost let this mentality total his career. In 2020, Ezra insisted that he wanted to quit music, telling his manager: “I don’t identify with it, I don’t understand it, I find it really hard to get my head around why I would pursue what I associate with being quite stressful – because the last album was unenjoyable at times, by my own doing.”

Ezra had become “the kid who just says yes,” he says – a punishing identity that gave him a perverse kind of validation. “The diary would be bursting – you could almost see it pulsating. And I lost control, and therefore I started to try to control the things that didn’t need controlling.” He gives the example of spending three hours packing hand luggage: “Dude, you could throw some underwear in that bag, a few T-shirts and a toothbrush and you would be fine.” (As we chat, he often gives himself a second-person talking-to.) “ But this thing could be on display at a museum.”

He also has Pure O , a form of OCD that involves intrusive thoughts without the physical compulsions. He used to lose weeks to them. During the first lockdown, he found a therapist and practised transcendental meditation, which helped. Now the thoughts might loop for just 30 minutes. He has stopped trying to stop them, “because that’s where I used to wind myself up,” he says.

When life opened up again, Ezra got back to writing with his long-term collaborator Joel Pott (formerly of 2000s indie band Athlete), and rediscovered the pleasures of music that his yes-man persona had trampled. “The reason you do this is because you love it,” he tells himself. “And maybe that’s the payoff, that you get to pursue something you love – but as a result, you’re gonna feel it acutely and care too much at times.” (Pott praises the “good people” around Ezra, who told him he didn’t owe anyone anything.)

Given Ezra’s renewed joy, it may seem counterintuitive that death looms over Gold Rush Kid . He cavorts with her on Green Green Grass, another insatiable earworm. On the twinkly closer Sun Went Down, he repeats, with real warmth, “I could die now.” It’s not the old nihilism but a sense of peace that comes from knowing he is giving life his best shot, of accepting himself in this moment.

While Ezra likes his first two albums, he loves this one. “It doesn’t sound like anything but myself,” he says. The first five tracks are classic Ezra – as bright and buoyant as a new pool inflatable. But then it takes a ruminative shift – the album’s most striking song, I Went Hunting, beautifully addresses his past self-sabotage. It’s not a prelude to him becoming a tortured artist, he says – Ezra disdains artists longing to shed their pop fans and get serious – but the result of “a lot of self-reflection”.

He’s chuffed when I single out his favourite line from lead single Anyone for You: “Remember me the way I am, not the way I was.” (Once a month, he prints selected photos from his phone and deletes the rest. “I feel like I’m dragging something along with me,” he says.) He struggles to identify those changes, partly because they’re ineffable, partly because he enjoys privacy. But he gives it a go. He’s discovered that contentment is different from happiness. On this album, he’s telling himself: “You’re all right. You’re not a villain.”

Ezra still walked from Land’s End to John o’Groats with two friends for an upcoming documentary series, ultimately relieved he didn’t have to write an album at the same time. Walking 20 to 30 miles a day gave him the same feeling of peace as transcendental meditation, one that’s stuck around. There was another experience as well: he won’t discuss the specifics on record because he says he hasn’t figured out how to communicate it, but it showed him that the love in his life was inescapable. “I have these people around me, family and friends, that are there. The lesson was: what you don’t get, George, is that they just love you because of who you are. And don’t try to make sense of that because you won’t be able to. But accept it.” He thinks about it all the time. “It felt seismic, but really calm. I think that’s true of a lot of the last few years – these huge changes that actually just took one tiptoe to the left.”

He has learned to look after himself – phone off at 9pm, light the fire, read – and found work-life balance. “I can actually plan meaningful interactions with friends around work,” he says, “which is the thing I’ve always envied in other people.” And no more yes-man. He told management: “Put things in front of me if you think they’re important, and only fight for them if you think they’re really important.”

Still, he wants to give G old Rush Kid a “fighting chance”, especially as he anticipates turning 30 and thinks about “drawing a line in the sand” at some point. “It’s the saddest thing I see in pop music when people just cling on to something,” he says. He isn’t retiring prematurely: he might release music more regularly, but cease touring. “I get a lot from it, positive and negative,” he says. “It’s an insane amount of adrenaline to experience and then to carry that with you.”

Ezra is not the sort of pop star who gameplans their career five years in advance – the opposite, in fact. He definitively does not want to break the US. “It’s too big a place to consider mirroring what my work looks like in Europe and Australia,” he says. “To try to recreate that would kill me. I don’t need it.” He also wants children, which feels incompatible with a career at his level. “There are home videos of me as a child saying I want to be a dad,” he says. “I have to question people that are very famous and pursue that after having kids. It’s lost on me. It sounds selfish.”

The most he will look to his future career is to suggest that being adored by the nation’s children means his songs will ultimately become “throwback party classics”. Any kids that didn’t already know him soon did if they followed Joe Wicks’s lockdown PE lessons . Ezra’s mum, a primary school teacher, told him Wicks said he couldn’t play music on the videos because of copyright. She suggested that Ezra let Wicks use his songs for free. So he did, then donated the royalties to the NHS. “It was just a good thing to be able to do,” he says.

What does it say that pop stars are having to donate to the NHS during a pandemic? He pauses. “There’s a lot I don’t understand,” he says, sadly. “The amount that I don’t understand intimidates me to the point where it probably doesn’t serve me to speak about it because I don’t know where to start. But then I’m like, is that the point? Are you made to feel like you don’t understand when really you do?

“And that’s the thing I found hard about the last few years,” he says, with a sudden ragged breath, “is actually feeling… helpless in some way.” He says the last part in the smallest voice, and we’re both surprised to find he is crying, his grey-blue eyes now red. “Sorry!” he says quickly, and regroups. “There’s a lot of confusing stuff going on in the world. It’s sad, you’re right, why are fucking pop stars donating to the NHS?”

Ezra says he hasn’t generally made political statements because he doesn’t feel qualified – although he recalls his parents, Labour party members, taking him on marches – and not because his fanbase is so broad. He casts aspersions as he gestures around the Old Barge. “I love this pub. It is empty of an evening and it shouldn’t be,” he says emphatically, referencing the fear over Omicron. “Not that it should be busy, but they’re not helped. If people shouldn’t be going out, tell them to close the doors and help them through that time.”

He laments that “making the world an intimidating and confusing place is a really convenient way of pitting people against one another”. It runs counter to his worldview. He comes back to the walk, on which they regularly met “two types of farmer: people that live hand to mouth, up at 4am on Christmas, and they were lovely, pointing us in the right direction. We also met men who wear gold rings on their little fingers and live in big houses on the farms, and they were lovely, and told us which direction to go. It’s why he loved Gogglebox so much, he says, “because it’s good to be reminded you’re all the same in many ways.”

Ezra’s music has always expressed his faith in collective goodness: we’re all right together, we’re just human; as he sings on the song Gold Rush Kid. “You’re just like everyone, you’re holding on.” Has that belief been shaken in the past two years, when it’s often seemed as though we aren’t all in this together? “I don’t think so,” he says. “Getting out and walking the country and meeting people – it just isn’t true. I get terrified that everyone’s out to get each other. For the most part, they are – until you step out your front door.”

The single Anyone For You is out now; the album Gold Rush Kid follows on 10 June on Columbia Records

If you’d like to hear this piece narrated, listen on Saturday to The Guardian’s brand new podcast, Weekend . Subscribe on Apple , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts.

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George Ezra's new album "Gold Rush Kid" will be released in June. The Briton himself explains who that might be: "The Gold Rush Kid? That's me! Twelve wonderful, uplifting and overwhelming songs that sound more like me than anything. That's what holds them together." Now it's time to present new music and go on tour again, which will bring him to the Olympic Hall in Munich in February 2023.

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