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EB: Well, I actually recorded every single show on the tour, which was about, I can't even
remember, a lot. Seventeen shows, maybe something like that, but it is all one show. It is all the
Fire Station show. I was starting to switch in a few from like Bristol or London and then I thought,
actually the Fire Station show was really, really good. It flowed really well and so I just decided
not to take any from any other shows. So I do have a whole load of shows in my back pocket
[chuckles], but this is just all one show.

BiTS: It's like I said, it's absolutely terrific. The only disappointment to me is there's only one
track where you play the piano.

EB: Oh, yeah. I was a bit rusty [laughing]. I've been playing a little bit more now and I'm getting
better again.

BiTS: You’ve got lots and lots of gigs coming up in the near future, including I see, the Sidmouth
folk festival.

EB: Yeah, the Sidmouth Jazz and Blues Festival. Yeah, that's going to be great on the 27th of May,
and it's me and Mica Millar doing a co-headline. So very excited about that.

BiTS: Is that the first time you've done that one?

EB: It is, yeah.

BiTS: Do you have any idea what the arrangements are going to be? What sort of venue you're

playing in?
EB: We're playing on the headline stage, so whatever that stage is. I think it's an outdoor stage.

BiTS: Oh, okay. Yes, absolutely.

EB: Yeah. So we're playing there.

BiTS: Let's get back to the “Fire Station” album. Do you have a favourite track? Is there one that
is a great deal better than you thought it was going to be or something like that?

EB: I don't think so. It feels like, as a whole body of work, it just feels like something really nice
and something that I'm very proud of. I love the opening track, ‘The Game’. The closing track,
‘Sunshine City’ with Demi’s vocal solo is amazing. ‘Help Somebody’ and ‘Medicine Man’, I've never
really done live tracks before, so it's really nice to have some of those tracks from earlier albums
on it as well. It's not just the “Shining in the Half Light” album.