Hello, what's this? A little extra episode of Happy Place. Why not? It's to celebrate the

launch of Happy Place, the album which I'm so excited about. I've invited some remarkable

and brilliant musicians that worked on the record to talk about their Happy Places and

explore the stories behind writing each gorgeous track. And today I'd like to introduce

to you the wonderful Billy Martin. Let's go!

Oh Billy, thank you so much for chatting today and most of all thank you so much for delivering

the most sensational song ever in the form of Orange Tree which oh my god I mean I must have

DMed your Instagram about 50 times saying I really mean it I can't stop playing this song

I cry every time I hear it it's so beautiful. Oh no I'm so sorry. It's a great thing. I love

crying for songs it's just it's literally so beautiful and the melody is stunning let's have a

quick listen to some of it now.

It tends to be a running thread in my songs I don't really stray to a lot of different subjects

of mental health is kind of like my main go-to because it's always there we always have it.

This one was written a couple of years ago actually I kept coming up north to my parents maybe

like every two weeks because I just wasn't settled in London and I wasn't I didn't know what I was

doing there was a lot of picking up random jobs and like trying to write and finding no inspiration

I just kept getting really ill like physically ill so coming up north was kind of like a really

good form of therapy and songs tended to just fall out and there's no pretense up there there's

no one listening to you there's no deadlines and there's kind of no musical culture or industry

or anything at first literally just made my parents so it's quite a nice natural way of kind of

getting back into writing I guess and then our industry just sort of fell out I think I was just

a bit fed up and like miserable of being miserable and it's not supposed to be such a dire song it's

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