This week's menu features the 18 year old UK Alt Pop sensation, Alfie Templeman.  Alfie is a rising international star who writes, vocals and self-produces his records with a maturity far beyond his years. Signed to Chess Club Records, the Bedfordshire-born teen has cemented his place as one of UK indie-pop's brightest lights with over 50 million streams to date, over 200x BBC R1 plays and featuring in multiple Ones to Watch lists inc. The Independent, The Telegraph, The Sun, Vevo, and the prestigious BBC Sound of poll for 2021.Over the past 12 months, Alfie has been selected for Apple's #shotoniphone global campaign, YouTube's Foundry programme, H&M's New Artist of the Month, Top of the Pops NYE TV performance, as well as being added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist on three consecutive occasions. In addition, he has been playlisted across radio stations in Australia (Triple J), Europe (he has had 3 tracks concurrently in the Top 20 of the Music Movers European radio chart) and Scandinavia.Alfie's fun, vibrant and optimistic music and personality has seen his Spotify Monthly Listeners hit 1 million and his socials exceed 150K followers since his first post in late 2018. We talk with Alfie on this week's Blue Plate Special.