With his brand new bop ‘Nobody Has To Know’ out now, our Thomas has some things he’d like you to know. Words: Stephen Ackroud. Photos: Jordan Curtis Hughes.

We’re not weird. We promise. When musicians ‘go live’ on TikTok or Instagram, they’re talking to the world. It’s only normal that a pop magazine might also be stalking watching, ready to ask questions on what’s revealed within.

So, really, when up-and-coming popster Thomas Headon happened to start broadcasting on a random Saturday afternoon in October and stated he wanted more people to know he could surf, it should be no shock that we’d want to follow up on that. It’s a service, really. Spreading the word. Doing good stuff. Helping. With his brand new bop ‘Nobody Has To Know’ out now - he’s giving away a sofa to celebrate, ‘FYI’, we were due a catch-up anyway. And anyone who claims we only wanted to confirm we heard right when he said The 1975’s Matty Healy walked past his window earlier that day is a liar. Honest.

Hello, Thomas Headon. How are you doing today? What have you been up to? Hello Dork. Good to talk to you again. I’m well, recovering from the plague that has hit London but other than that all good. Today I’ve eaten some really good hummus and now I’m answering your questions

So, we were watching your live stream on TikTok on Saturday just gone (because we’re very cool and have loads of interesting things to do at the weekend) and we heard you were very keen that more people know that you can surf. Happy to help. How did you take up surfing? You make me laugh, Dork. First of all thank you for joining, really glad I’m your weekend entertainment. Secondly thanks for helping me let the world know I surf, that’s kind of you. I grew up like an hour away from the beach, everybody I know in Australia surfs. So pretty common to just grow up with it and you and your friends would go out on summer holidays just to surf. Really good fun, we should go sometime.