It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: your child wants to drop out of university to pursue a comparatively unstable creative passion. When Jonathon Ng broke such news to his dad a few years ago, the reaction was precisely what you’d expect. “He got really annoyed and told me to get out of the car,” Ng recalls, chuckling. “Yep, they were definitely angry.”

Ng can laugh about it now, given that things have “worked out” in his musical career. The 21-year-old from Stillorgan, Dublin — his Hong Kong-born father accounts for the surname — is one of Ireland’s most promising international prospects. Under the name Eden, his electronic pop music has been on tastemakers’ lips for the past 18 months ahead of the arrival of his debut