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BiTS: Now I gather you spent a lot of time in London, but more recently you moved back down
to Plymouth. Is Plymouth home? Was that where you came from originally?

SL: Yeah, yeah. I'm born and bred Plymouth, and yeah, I spent the first 19 years of my life here
and I escaped in 2011. I moved to Salford

for a couple of years up near Manchester,
and then I moved to London. So as you
said, I moved back here two years ago and
yeah, I'm really happy to embrace my
country bumpkin now [laughs].

BiTS: Now you've been working a lot with
Vince Lee, and you've got this album out.
Tell me about the making of that album. I
gather you went out into the countryside
to do it.

SL: Yeah. So basically, Vince and I, we play
together a lot at home and we're very
much keen to get out in nature as well. So
you know Vince has been doing for a
number of years videos of him out in the
sticks literally, just him playing guitar and
they're wonderful videos. And so when I
came home, obviously I was dead keen to Sophie with
do that as well. So we just tend to, if it's a her latest
nice sunny day, we'll either sit out on the acquisition, a
porch and do it because he's got a lovely ‘panckake’
little sun trap porch we can sit on and do bass
videos and just play. We either jam or

Vince has some tunes in mind that he
wants to do. Or if it's a particularly
spectacular day, we go, alright, let’s take the van and go a bit further afield because where we
are we're very fortunate to have Dartmoor National Park. So we're keen to exploit our good
fortune in that regard and yeah, it's cool to just go out in nature and play music where there's
no one around and it just feels very well, old school, I guess. So yeah, that's kind of what we do.
We set up one mic and just film it and take the audio from that. And yeah, hope that is a good
take on my part. It's always a great take on Vince’s part, but you know, definitely some work
needed on my end [laughs].

BiTS: It's not unusual for guitar players, Vince is certainly one of them, to have dozens of guitars.
Is that true of bass players as well? Do bass players have dozens of basses?

SL: Well, you know, I always think for me personally like a bass is a bass, do you know what I
mean? Like the bass frequency itself, as long as it sounds bass-y that’ll do the trick. So I have a
few, but to be honest with you, the reason I have them is – so I have, I don't know, must be five,
and four of them I've got because people have very kindly in my life given them to me at some
point or another. Like mentors and people who've been a really positive influence have said, this
is for you, or whatever, and passed it on to me. So I've got about five or so, but I haven't gone too
crazy with it. I've got obviously, the Frankenbass. I recently got an old Danelectro from 1958.

That bass, I would say, is a special instrument. It's got its own sound which justifies having that,