This week Little Lost David plays at Plug as part of a UK tour with Glasgow and London on the schedule.

But it was barely a year ago that he performed to a handful of gripped viewers in Sheffield's tiny Lantern Theatre. He had the audience eating out of his hand.

Jaws dropped as soon as the singer-songwriter sang the first few notes of his set. Now, Little Lost David is playing to much bigger audiences and is signed to Sony Records, securing the deal on his birthday.

His sound is laden with inherent contradictions – one moment his gossamer-like vocals float above fragile guitar, the next his singing is steely and gospel-infused, as if possessed by a greater force as in Hell Followed.

Live Little Lost David is known for playing with just a drummer, although now now he is expanding his entourage to create a fuller sound on stage.

This summer he recorded Skin and Bones and The Lost Child – the latter a dark-sounding number with subtle cymbals and falsetto vocals.

Roch's agile vocals hark back to his past as a classically-trained musician, although he says his drummer is not formally trained: "That's why we get on so well. He's not stuck into a standard."

In the New Year Little Lost David releases his album, which has yet to be named: "It's pure laziness – I'm no good at naming anything, even my songs are thought of by people around me."

Roch describes the album's music as possessing much fuller sound but live he says: "It's much rawer and at times it does feel like I'm baring my soul."

Little Lost David plays at Plug this Wednesday (September 24).