Lewis Capaldi should be on top of the world. Next month he releases a superb second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, which is guaranteed to be one of this year’s biggest sellers. Its first two singles went to No 1 and tour dates around the world are sold out. The return of the funniest man in music has been met with near universal acclaim.
Yet the Capaldi I meet in a pub in Glasgow’s West End looks thoroughly miserable. Twitching from the Tourette’s that he was diagnosed with last year and nursing a glass of water he barely touches, he reels off a list of ailments like a man three times his age of 26.
“For the past few days I’ve
