A couple of hours before we meet Noah Kahan in a vacant suite of his fancy West End hotel, he posts a video of a new song, called Porchlight.
Nothing unusual in that, you might think. But the video features the 29-year-old Vermonter singing from the lavatory of his hotel bathroom; with a hashtag reading "explosive diarrhoea".
So it's with a little trepidation that we greet him a couple of hours later. Is there a safe exit route if he's caught short? Should we ensure a plentiful supply of bananas?
Luckily, it turns out Kahan was just teasing his fans.
"The bathroom has really good acoustics," he laughs, "and I always think it's funny to be sitting on the toilet playing music. My fans seem to like it when I talk about poop and stuff, so it's a good way to mix music and bathroom humour."
