'I had an early lesson in manipulation'

They are a raw and raucous Nashville-based band who embrace the rock lifestyle, with a leader whose father was a preacher. Remind you of anyone? Chris Salmon meets MonaIt takes a certain kind of up-and-coming musician to sit in a west London hotel on a December afternoon wearing dark sunglasses, assuredly explaining how he plans to shake up the music world, winning Brits and Grammys along the way. Or, indeed, to walk on stage a few hours later in a packed east London venue holding aloft a bottle...

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