moping

"My whole life turned upside down, and I spent ages moping and just sitting around," said the 34-year-old.

Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more.

“Especially tournaments - finals - the losing team, they’re kind of moping and some guys don’t take off their gloves,” he said.

Ezra's job seems simple - but writing life-affirming pop songs is much harder than moping around being edgy.

Mr Dixon-Box said: "There's no use moping about saying there's a skills gap, the best way is to teach people and for them to learn."