ItвЂ™s actually very hard to deal with not releasing records as often as other people. That does come with a stipulation, a point that I didn't read in the small print: youвЂ™re gonna spend quite a lot of time with people going, вЂWhat are you doing?вЂ™вЂ¦ I'd much rather have my life where I was releasing music on a regular basis. вЂњSo donвЂ™t put anything f***ing blasГ© out just to keep your momentum going, stop and take the time and release something thatвЂ™s good. вЂњI got brought up in a way, with my management company and s***, to not do anything until you think itвЂ™s really good,вЂќ he explains. On the topic of the mystique that develops during lengthy breaks, for instance, he warms. Ne-Yo: вЂIвЂ™ve been at parties where people boo an R Kelly record вЂ“ thatвЂ™s bulls***вЂ™.The Rolling StonesвЂ™ musical director Chuck Leavell: вЂMick Jagger must be from another planetвЂ™.Jackson Wang, Niki, Milli, Bibi and more: Meet 88rising вЂ“ the trailblazing Asian collective making global moves.His electric, motormouth bursts of rabid street poetry and bare-boned urban ballads, incorporating punk, soul, folk and rap, epitomised the fast-evolving excitement of the early streaming era in the indie-pop sphere, tracks such as вЂњCalm Down DearestвЂќ and вЂњSticks and StonesвЂќ have become revered modern texts. If Macca was there as the boomersвЂ™ generational icon, Treays held a similar position for the millennials onsite. Taking a corner table, we small-talk about his ambitions to play in South America and his recent live comeback, warming up at west LondonвЂ™s Subterania for 600 fans before headlining the John Peel stage at Glastonbury, opposite Paul McCartney. A decade since our last beer together, Treays greets me warmly outside a Covent Garden pub, more bearded and bespectacled than when last we met, but his endearing nose-wheeze of a laugh still ever-ready. How much of his sporadic antagonism is an affectation, a defence mechanism or simply toying with interviewers for sport is hard to quantify. Ever since вЂњSheilaвЂќвЂ™s melodic parade of drunks, dealers and addicts established him as the most renowned rap-punk troubadour of the urban sprawl back in 2006, the now 36-year-old Jamie Treays has developed something of a reputation for being prickly with the press.

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