Being in the right place at the right time when Mr 10% is looking for new talent isn't an exacting science. He used to look in candle adorned upstairs rooms of pubs, then function rooms of working men's clubs hired out for "roots" concerts.

The "right place" might have been a pub's back room once.   It's Facebook and Soundcloud now.

I very much doubt whether any agent would bother looking in a pub for talent these days.