What I went through was a bit drastic, but I think a lot of kids have that bad rep with their parents, when they want to be one thing and they parents want something completely different, like a doctor or something.

TAC – You've been working with Mark Ronson. How did that come about? Have he been a guiding force at all?

LJM – Well, I used to be an engineer in a studio and at that point in my life I wanted to be the best engineer that I could. I was just putting out demos for the hell of it and one of them was Scratch which is actually on this album. Mark came to the studio and said he really liked what I'd done and asked me to come to New York! At that point he hadn't worked with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen so he wasn't that well known, but it was still pretty cool.

TAC - Is there anyone you'd like to collaborate with?

LJM - Actually, I spoke to Lisa and Wendy from Prince and Revolution and they said they would like to hook up, so that's something that I'm really looking forward to.

TAC – I hear you used to be in an R&B group called Syndicate. This is a bit of a departure isn't it?

LJM – [laughs] It was a bunch of us from school and we put it together for fun, actually for a charity thing. It was a really fun and so we thought “let's have a crack at it”. It didn't go anywhere, but I wouldn't have met my boss at the studio if I hadn't done that. It was a bit like Damage but with no embarrassing dance routines or opening shirts and flexing muscles.

TAC - That's good, you just know that's going to come back and haunt you on Before They Were Famous otherwise.

LJM – [laughs] Yeah definitely!

TAC - Your music has elements of various different genres. How would you describe your music?

LJM - That's a hard one. Simply, it's a reflection of me growing up.