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we've already recorded and played. So I thought well, why don't we just do a live album of what
it sounds like. So this is what we've got, you see. So we've done a really good quality live album.
We've had it recorded digitally. It's been digitally recorded over two gigs, actually. It was going
to just be one, but then it ended up being two, which is interesting because we've got slightly
different personnel on some of them.

BiTS: Yes, I was going to ask you about how this worked. Did you play the same set on two
separate nights, or what happened?

RB: Yes, we did play the same set on two separate nights, yes. That's exactly what happened. On
the first gig, well, we'd got it all recorded and we were ready to sort of start working and then
we had another gig that was quite soon after the first one, and I had no idea it was going to be

recorded. In fact, we went along to the place we were at last night, which is called the Tuesday
Night Music Club, did a gig there. It actually was a belter. It was even better than the one that was
recorded, almost because we were conscious of the fact that it was being recorded. I think I was.
I just knew that the red light, I had a little bit of red-light itis, if you like, so I tried quite hard.
Sometimes when you try quite hard, it doesn't come out quite as well. It was really good, but you
know, anyway. And then so we did another gig. We didn't know it was being recorded, but it was.
So two days after the gig, suddenly I get an email in my inbox from the sound engineer. He's got
a digital recorder and he just mics everything up and records it. Suddenly I had this email: Here's
your gig from the other night, and it was all individual tracks.

BiTS: Oh, wow!

RB: The whole thing enabled me to use some of those tracks also, but we had different personnel.
We had a different baritone sax player because our normal baritone sax player on the first gig
was unavailable. Sax players, horn players are busy people, professional ones. They're always
out working, I mean, he had a gig with the London Symphony Orchestra.

BiTS: Oh really?