The craft of song-writing has been Tom's life. His early years were spent in Cornwall. After lots of temporary homes, the family eventually bought a hotel in Suffolk where he spent the rest of his teenage years. “My parents worked really hard at doing it all up and innovating a really creative place. It was a hotel, but out the back we had an old-fashioned ballroom and a nightclub beneath it called 'Charlie’s Bar.’ That became a really popular place to hang out.” His brother Jo learned the drums, Tom learned the guitar and by the time they were in their early teens, they’d put a band together.