James BluntJames Blunt has said he’s not surprised that many of the songs on his second album are “miserable” - because he was freezing cold when he wrote them.

The womanising party animal retreated to his home in Ibiza last winter expecting to catch some winter sun, only to find it was not that much warmer than the UK.

He explained: “You need a bit of quiet so I went to Ibiza for three months in the winter with my piano and guitar.”

“I wrote some miserable songs. It was freezing. Some[one] stole my boiler. I was sitting there in a hat, coat and fingerless gloves. If the songs sound sad, you can understand why.”