School's Out! Alex Spencer celebrates with 'One Way Ticket'
Schools out for sensational young up-and-comer Alex Spencer as he picks the route to main stage glory with…
One Way Ticket
- Building on the sonic boom of his festival-ready debut single, A Night To Waste, the 16-year-old prodigy brings a second indie-pop fizzer
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- Rootsy and writing beyond his years, Alex Spencer flicks through classic influences to land in similar terrain to Jake Bugg and Declan McKenna
Alex Spencer – One Way Ticket
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Hanging up his blazer and swapping the classroom for the dressing room, otherworldly teen song writing phenomenon, Alex Spencer returns with his latest single, One Way Ticket as his school days officially come to an end. Graduating into a world that’s turned to check out his next great move after releasing his debut Modern Sky UK single, A Night To Waste, in April, the assertive follow up launches Alex into a summer of long days, loud nights and fresh optimism.
Wrapping an eventful musical spring around the small matter of completing his exams, Alex’s fired-up music career follows spending his childhood busking with unstoppable confidence on Manchester’s busy streets. Following the release of his last single, he has made his major festival debut at Liverpool’s Sound City, broadcast to the world via BBC News’ Tik Tok and acquired influencer status through his own day-in-the-life social media updates. Capitalising on scheduling changes at Sky Sports, as the music-supporting Soccer AM fades into the past, Alex’s wise-beyond-years aptitude as an interviewee also saw him chat and become the first musician to perform on the channel’s new Good Morning Sports Fans show.
With a blink-and-you’ll-miss it, two-minute flash bomb of a second track, the 16-year-old singer-songwriter takes another leap into the limelight having found the next step towards inevitably huge stages, boosted by media attention and radio play. Both outwardly confident in style and studiously introspective in his lyric writing, One Way Ticket comes loaded with meaning for the younger generation that he represents.
Alex explains: “I talk about the life of someone essentially of a generation stuck in the same loop, in a system that repeats over and over again. According to those higher up, our lives are set out exactly how they want them to be. We might be beginning to realise we have less freedom, but not everybody can see it yet. So many problems in this world are man-made but we can break free and fix them.”
Having picked up a discarded guitar at home and decided that it afforded opportunity too good to pass up, Alex’s musicianship blossomed by playing great soul and rock and roll standards. As an early teen starting out, he says that it was Ben E King’s Stand By Me that got the ball rolling before the classic 10CC’s Dreadlock Holiday followed into his early repertoire. Ahead of writing his own music, the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Sam Fender became his go-to influences both in his bedroom and out performing on the streets.
Studio time with experienced artist, songwriter and producer, Adam French, has not only captured the enthusiasm of such tender years but also pushed Alex’s song writing from justifiably confident in his own head to obviously ready to compete. Signing with Modern Sky (The Lathums, Crawlers, Brooke Combe) and picking up vital support from other areas of the UK’s indie star-making community, the next steps include deploying his ready-and-waiting live band onto the touring circuit and onwards to major festivals.
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