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We caught up with the busy man Mr Williams who kindly gave up a few minutes of his time to tell us how his new album “The Little Things” is coming along and how he felt returning to music after 4 years out.

Q) How do you feel about your new album?

I feel good about “The Little Things” because I’ve put in so much work into making it the standard that it is right now, all 10 tracks are completed, well I say completed, you are never really finished with a song, there are always constant little tweaks and adjustments you are trying to make. But I am relatively happy with what I’ve got at the moment but I dare say I will make a few more edits to what I have got at the moment before it is released to the general public, I feel there are a few problems with the pitching of the percussion as the sound quality is not perfect in my eyes, there’s a couple of pitching issues (laughs).

Q) Why did you decide to return after a 4 year break?

I came back because making music and singing is my passion and it’s the one true thing that I feel I’m invincible when doing it, when I sing to a live audience I think “there is no better feeling than this”. It is truly gratifying as I feel that giving people something to talk about or reflect on is the best thing somebody can do with their lives, I am still only young at 23 but I feel that by making records for people to remember and sing-along to is part of a massive legacy of music and I hope to still be making music for the next few years to really cement myself into the industry and to put my own mark on the musical legacy.

Q) Do you regret leaving the industry?

Well yeah, it’s just one of those things that you have to get on with though, and I mean sometimes I think “where would I be if I had never left?” But really it’s just pointless in thinking like that, I could have been further in my career but the way I look at it is that the time can be rebuilt in the future, I can be around for 4 more years and get to the position that I would be now. In fact I could be even better as in the time I have had off gave me time to mature and become more independent and it really gave me a idea in where I wanted to go with my music and what I wanted to do with it.

Q) What did you do during your break?

Oh gosh! You know what right, it started off as nothing, and I would literally do nothing for days on end, just sit around the house watching television. Or I would go out and party hard until the early hours of the morning. But then after 6 months of this it became boring and my body couldn’t handle it, I felt drained all the time and I looked a scruffy mess. I decided to fill in the empty space with a job, so originally I became a waiter in a restaurant which was pretty good, meeting new people but the problem was everybody recognised me and I could not get away from them, I would be bringing out dishes and drinks and people would be getting in my way and asking for autographs so it became a bit of a nightmare job after a while. I needed a lower profile job, where people wouldn’t stop me in the middle of doing something, so I decided to be a courier. People didn’t really see me as I was just dropping something off or picking something up. But as I was on the road for long hours, I had time to think and I decided to go back to music.

Q) Finally, will we be seeing you at any festivals next year or have you got a tour lined up?

Well (laughs) if all goes to plan I am lined up for the Reading Festival next year during the summer so I do look forward to that. And also I will be going on a global tour either at the end of next year or the start of 2013 so hopefully that goes to plan, because it’s going to be absolutely huge, I am looking to finish up in the UK and tour the whole country from top to bottom performing in all major cities.

Ok Mr Williams, we look forward to that greatly. Thank you for your time.

Ok thank you.

Mr Williams’ Album “The Little Things” is to be released January 2012.