Remember the shock of the so-called new normal? It might feel worlds away now, but in the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t all that long ago that coming within two metres of someone felt genuinely weird after a year-and-a-bit of social distancing. It was a time where the lines between excitement and trepidation blurred, and doing things that for months had been forbidden certainly took some adjusting. grandson remembers it well because the shock of change hit him particularly hard. He’d had to watch the reaction to his debut album – the fiery, sharply political Death Of An Optimist – through a screen, rather than on a stage. He tried to stay busy while confined to his house, diving into songwriting for other artists, and even penning a theme song for a f...
