News Summary

• Cesare Cremonini's new album, Amateur, is due for release on October 23.
• The singer-songwriter has collaborated with a stellar line-up of Italian stars.
• Amateur was recorded at Damon Albarn's studio in London's King's Cross.
• On Tuesday, he played an intimate gig at the legendary Shepherd’s Bush Empire, right in the neighbourhood where The Who formed.
• He says: "Not even Trump can kill culture.
• Not even the Queen, or David Bowie, or The Beatles.
• I came here because I wanted to be a nobody, to step aside and let the music take centre stage"