Wayne Banks has spent close to two decades as the name behind other names, working as a bassist, musical director and session musician with credits including Robin Gibb, Saxon and The Classic Rock Show. ‘World We Share’ marks his step out from behind that CV and into a solo career of his own, and it announces itself as a debut worth paying attention to.

Recorded at Old School Recording Studios on the Wirral and mastered at Abbey Road, the track is a moderate-tempo, festival-built anthem that sits comfortably alongside British rock touchstones like The Who, The Jam and Oasis, built for a crowd to sing back at him. Underneath the hooks, though, is something more pointed: Banks has described the song as a social protest anthem about empowerment, class struggle and reclaiming personal autonomy, drawn directly from his own upbringing on a Nottingham council estate. It is a song about people being written off by background or circumstance, and about refusing to be boxed in by any of it.

That balance, big and singalong on the surface, genuinely angry underneath, is what makes ‘World We Share’ work as a mission statement. With second single ‘Cold River’ due on 22nd September and a full debut album to follow in November, this is a solid first move from an artist who clearly has plenty more to say.