Jake Bugg: On growing older, battling cynicism, and working-class pop music

“I was definitely angry when I was growing up... you don’t know a lot about yourself at that age. Not as much as I would have liked to.”

Jake Bugg performing on stage during the Teenage Cancer Trust show.

When singer Jake Bugg was 17, his world flipped upside down. 

He’d grown up on a hard-knock council estate in Nottingham and watched many of his friends go down the wrong path.