With new album 'In Lieu Of Flowers', Dan Campbell is set to expand the evocative and story-rich saga of Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties, blending heartfelt narratives with his signature musical ambition - but could it be the final chapter? Check out our latest Upset cover story.

Words: Alexander Bradley.

"The graffiti on the wall says 'Fuck the Tories' / Outside a takeaway, we're eating on the street," opens 'Alone At St. Luke's', the new single from Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties. Urgent and alert, the track fizzes with the energy of a singer revelling in the opportunity to be back on the road with his band.

For Dan Campbell, the puppeteer behind Aaron West, this was one of those moments where fiction and reality blurred.

"That is literally what the graffiti said," he smiles, but the opportunity to share the sentiment was an open goal he couldn't pass up. Having first toured the UK with his band The Wonder Years back in 2007, the singer has witnessed in snapshots the growing disdain for conservatism at the same time as more active interests in politics amongst young British people. He'd still happily swap the US for a place with universal healthcare and gun control, but the similarities between politics on both sides of the pond are apparent to him.

"It seems like it is not dissimilar to American politics," he reasons. "There is this Conservative Party that is racist and transphobic and regressive in every way, seems to be trying to cut the NHS which, I can tell you as someone that does not have single-payer healthcare, is a bad idea."