Cam Cole: ‘Being a one-man band helps the most’

But rather than being downhearted by the lack of gigs in the past 16 months, he managed to turn it into a positive through a series of Sounds From the Van online performances. The internet, he says, has proved something of a godsend in making his presence known more widely.

“I think it was a following that I’d already kind of built up from just years of hard work on the streets in London and various other towns in England, it was a snowball that was already in motion from about eight years of doing that, then when coronavirus hit I was about to do my first official tour in venues,” he says.