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HS: Eric, the piano player, I met him at The Old Duke. He used to go down there
every Tuesday for the open mic night to get over his stage fright, basically. He

used to play piano after the open mic finished and while people were still kicking

around. I was there just kind of hanging out and heard him playing this amazing

New Orleans blues piano.

I was like who's this guy who looks like an accountant but he's playing the most

amazing piano. So I went over there and start jamming on harmonica with him.

And then he said, I’ve got this band. We need another soloist. Do you want to
come and have a jam with us to see what happens? And that went pretty well. So

I joined that band.

It was an unusual one because it was sort of a New Orleans blues bass, but it had

a guy on beatbox instead of drums. So we wanted to do something more traditional
after about a year, year and a half or something and that's when the Slimline

Shufflers came about. I wanted to play with a drummer and a bass and do more

traditional stuff.

BiTS: And what about your drummer? You mentioned him just now, I think.

HS: Yeah, I met him at the open mic scene at Mr Wolfs. There's a place in the
centre of Bristol called Mr Wolfs, and he plays guitar and sings as well, so I would

sometimes jam with him when he did open mics on guitar. And so I knew him

and when we came to need another drummer, he was the first guy that came to