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BiTS: When you were learning guitar and starting to perform, did you have lessons, or are you
self-taught?

VL: No, I was self-taught for
many years and then after
years and years and years, I
sort of hung out in a few guitar
workshops with some famous
blues guys and just listened to
what they had to say, and I
took on board that stuff. So a
lot of the things I learned like
from other people was much
later. I think initially, I sort of
like just listened and I was
really quite obsessive about it.
So I pretty much figured it out
just from listening to records
over and over like we used to.

BiTS: Do you have a favourite
track on the album?

VL: Oh, I don't know. I mean,
they're all like favourites
really, because that's the thing,
they’re all things that are in my
head that I've never really
committed to anything. So
there's no real record of it and,
I mean, all we did with the
records is we just took all the
audios from the videos that we
did, we picked the ones we Vince and Sophie with the ‘Frankenstein’ bass.
thought sit nicely together and
we just went through it. So
there's stuff by Tom Waits.
There's old stuff by Blind Willie McTell and there's all sorts of stuff on there. It's a wild combination
of whatever we chose to do and sometimes it's not the whole track because for whatever reason we
got interrupted. If you listen carefully, you might hear some farmyard animals and there’s definitely
some wind, and stuff like that, because we're literally outside.

BiTS: You say you're preparing an album for the studio, is that right?

VL: Yes, yes.

BiTS: When's that one? Is that being recorded now or what?

VL: Yeah, we're in the process of doing it. I've recorded most of the songs that I really wanted to do
and they’re already done but I wanted to flesh it out a bit more, so I need a bit more time to sort of
like just pull out a few more tracks from my head to make up the numbers, if you know what I mean.
But the stuff that I really wanted to do, we've pretty much nailed that already. So it shouldn't be too
long. I mean, me and Sophie went out to California last spring and Sophie's been a few times to the
States. She's got connections there, and I'd never been. So she said, I'm going to make sure I take