‘God knows where I would be if I had not come here’.

When Brian Christinzio graces the stage as BC Camplight at Manchester’s O2 Apollo next week, no one will feel a bigger sense of accomplishment than him.

The Philadelphia native, who moved to the city more than a decade ago after, in his own words, ‘burning every bridge’, forged a stunning creative resurgence after surviving homelessness, addiction and even deportation.

Now he’s giving back to the UK music scene who helped shaped his career path.

His UK A Sober Conversation album tour will see him joined by The Last Dinner Party’s Abigail Morris at London’s Roundhouse tonight before linking up with Badly Drawn Boy for the Manchester extravaganza on November 14. Christinzio recalls watching The War on Drugs, a band he played live with,

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