Recently signed to Seven Miles Out, the exciting new Stockportbased indie label, Barratt has been receiving rave reviews for his debut single, Home, a heartswelling, arena-sized rock ballad that pulls off that very Elbow-esque trick of sounding both anthemic and bracingly intimate.

For a heartswelling event of this nature, it was perfect.

Miserable Strangers couples a tale of a relationship on the rails with heartswelling music akin to Elbow at their best.

As usual Jools will see in the New Year with the heartswelling pipes and drums of the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards.

With Love From Vasily was always going to do what it said on the tin - serve up a heartswelling dose of musical romance under the baton of the RLPO's Russian heart-throb.