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place to place, trying to see as many people as possible. So we thought alright, let's do an extra
week this time and take a whole month away for it. So yeah, it's exciting.

BiTS: Are you organising gigs, or is it just a kind of random turn-up and play?

SL: So it's like a working holiday, I guess. Last time we were very fortunate. Well, Vince has got
lots of friends over there who are very keen to play, so there's a few promoters over. There's a
great guy called Cadillac Zack, who puts on brilliant blues gigs over there and we hooked up with
him. Our friend in San Diego, Rick Lee, who's a bit of a legend over there, he plays drums, and he
joined us and put some gigs on at Gator by the Bay Festival and things like this. And so this time,
it's kind of an extension on that. Rick has very kindly got us some more gigs. We're going to do
the Cadillac Zack thing again and we’re playing the Blues Festival again. So yeah, it's going to be
kind of hitting some of
the same areas, but
Sophie, with Dave Allen and Lucy Piper
also a couple of new
ones ad-lib. I think
there's like ten gigs or
something, but

obviously, we're just
going over there to
have a holiday really
and catch up with
people, have a jam
here and there and,
you know, also catch
some sun because it’s
been bloody miserable
down here.

BiTS: Do you write
music yourself, or do you write songs?

SL: I'm afraid I don't, no. I mean, I leave that to the more talented people. I just kind of bash along
and try and keep up. But yeah, I'm not much of a writer myself. I'm strictly a bass player [laughs].

BiTS: Perhaps you'll get inspired whilst you're in the States.

SL: Yeah, yeah, definitely. You know, to be honest, like Vince has written some great original
material that we’ve been working on, and so I'm keen to get that together and showcase what
he can do because I love his original stuff, so it'd be great to have that out there.

BiTS: What's your kind of long-term ambition, Sophie? Have you got plans of where you would
like to go and play or somebody you'd like to play with?

SL: Well, to be honest, Ian, I’m happy as Larry really. Vince has always been a big influence on
me, a big hero to me. So it sounds really cheesy, I know, but it’s true and he knows that. So I'm
really happy to be playing with someone like him and the way I see it is whatever he wants to
do, I'll be quite happy to go and do it with him. Do you know what I mean or, you know, tag along
or whatever? Well, one of my big ambitions is to get better at playing double bass because that's
an endless challenge and it’s exhausting as well. So that's a big ambition to get better at that to
the point where I feel like I'm actually a double bass player and not just an electric bass player
clinging on for dear life [laughs]. So that's a big ambition. A big ambition also, to get Vince's
original material out there and just have fun and play where ever anyone wants us. Yeah, I know