Evidently born to do it, Alex stepped out of his home with a borrowed guitar under his arm as an even younger, adventurous teen, gamely taking up residence on busy shopping streets to test out transient audiences and tourists in places they’d least expect to find a new talent. Baby-stepping through the chords of Ben E King’s Stand By Me and 10CC’s Dreadlock Holiday to begin with, Spencer advanced to dissecting the modern classics of Arctic Monkeys and Sam Fender before inevitably starting to construct songs all of his own. The rest is history and the future has begun.

Signing off on his school days at the same time as releasing his last single, One Way Ticket, earlier this summer, Spencer’s sense of untameable adventure has seen him quickly jet off into the inner reaches of Italy to officially kick start his first months of new found freedom. That intrepid journey didn’t get underway until he’d played a raucous, intimate sold out show at Manchester’s 33 Oldham Street, a stepping stone on the route to Spencer’s exciting live plans for the rest of 2024.