It generated two top 10 singles with the relentlessly catchy Kickstarts, and the album’s title track, Won’t Go Quietly. His exuberant follow-up album Playing in the Shadows meanwhile offered up two number one mega hits; Changed the Way You Kissed Me and Stay Awake.
Marrying wistful lyrics (often about the ladies), with anthemic melodies and huge, ravey drops, Example is at the forefront of the kind of commercial dance music currently enjoying an explosion, and his onslaught of the charts has carried on throughout this summer with the success of his latest album Live Life Living.
Did you know? Example studied to be a film director and worked for a year in the props department on movies including Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Catch him raising the roof at the Corn Exchange on 17 November at 8.15pm, £30.