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vocals, we thought, oh, this would be perfect. It's Paul who suggested it, why

don’t you get Lily in again? She's a lovely girl, though.

BiTS: Absolutely fab. What a terrific story. I love that. Absolutely terrific.

TBS: It's all true stuff. All the songs on the album I’ve written, as we all do,

from the experiences of my life, really. And they've all got a little story behind

them [chuckles].

BiTS: You've had a

wonderful job done for you
on the mastering and the

actual recording of it, and

all the rest of it. It’s got a

terrific sound, absolutely

terrific. On my stereo

system it’s a really wide

sound as well, which is

terrific.

TBS: Well, the truth is, I'm

at Paul Jones's house

because Paul Jones did all

the mixing and the field

recording, the second part

of the field recording and

from Mu-Mu Audio. Then

Matt Devenish, is part of Mu-Mu Audios’ mate, he did all the mastering and

they're top of their game. They do the Upton Festival for us, the live sound
as me and Emma, my wife, we run the acoustic stage at the Upton Festival,

and Paul and Matt come and put in a system for us, which is absolutely top

notch. They've done all my albums. I'm at his house now because I got back

from up north yesterday. I had a couple of gigs in Durham, and the album

people have sent the test pressing , so I rushed over to Malvern where Paul

is, and we've just sat and listened to the actual vinyl for the first time. I've

never had vinyl before. We sat and listened to it on his big speakers, and we