Jack Savoretti on 'leaning into a midlife crisis'

"There's not much new music based on the afternoon of life." Twenty years since his debut, Jack Savoretti, who lives near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, says he was "very prepared for nobody really caring" about his ninth album, We Will Always Be The Way We Were. But upon its release in April, it peaked at number 2 on the UK Official Albums Chart, building on the success of top-charting Singing to Strangers in 2019 and Europiana in 2021. Ahead of his autumn tour across Europe and the UK, the singer talks about writing songs for "the mothers and the fathers in the world" and his first collaboration with long-time friend KT Tunstall. Savoretti compares choosing the theme of the album to "a bit like leaning into a midlife crisis". "As great as the music is right now, there's not much that I listen to that I relate to. "I love all these new artists, especially coming out of the UK - Sienna Spiro, Olivia Dean, Sam Fender, Lewis Capaldi - but they're really young, the stuff they talk about is beautiful and romantic and youthful." The 42-year-old singer lists some of his experiences so far - becoming a father of three, losing his own father and "having the worries you have as a middle-ag