Jonathan Joseph Higgs (born 23 February 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, filmmaker, director and multi-instrumentalist.

[1] Jonathan Joseph Higgs[2] was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 23 February 1985, and was raised in Northumberland, in the village of Gilsland.

He studied in Hexham at the Queen Elizabeth High School when he was a teenager, where he first met Mike Spearman and Alex Niven and started making music with them.

[3][4] During his A Levels, Higgs set up the satirical website "Edexhell", which mocked the poor quality of exam papers issued by Edexcel that had affected his grades, and launched a campaign to have the board's accreditation withdrawn by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

[6][7] Together with Jeremy Pritchard and Michael Spearman, Higgs and Niven wrote and composed songs for their planned first album.