KANE & ABLE

Miles Kane tells ALEX GREEN about his return to Britain, his love for Motown and feeling more self-assured in his 30s

- ALEX GREEN

WHEN Miles Kane was starting out, his idol, Paul Weller, took him under his wing and gave him some advice. He told him his 30s would be his best years and that he would feel “a million times different”.

Miles, now 35 and living back in London after a stint in Los Angeles, appears to have heeded those words. He looks to be living the life of a reformed indie hellraiser, focusing solely on his music.

“I’m still figuring it out,” he says. “Don’t get me wrong, I do not have all the answers. All I have is where I’m up to now and how I feel as a human – and I feel pretty good. I feel pretty confident again.”

Miles says he has done some work on himself in recent years, and this has filtered into his latest album, the reflective Change The Show.

“You look back and you don’t have regrets, but when you’re younger and you get thrust into a world... From where we’re from, we had nothing. I hadn’t even been outside of Liverpool. I hadn’t really had holidays. So even London is such a different place.

“When you’re younger and you get a bit of money, you just think, ‘I’m going to absolutely have it’. And so you should, because if you have worked hard and you’re young, you’ve got to explore those things to come out the other end.”

Raised in and around the Wirral, Miles made his solo debut in 2011 with Colour Of The Trap, after leaving short-lived band The Rascals. He was the sharp-suited successor to acts like The Jam and The Clash and a close friend of the Arctic Monkeys – he would later form The Last Shadow Puppets with their frontman Alex Turner.