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So yeah, we thought we might as well make an album with it and Eric really

wanted to have some vinyl, so he put forward the money for that. So we ended

up having CDs and vinyls and a few T-shirts as well [chuckles].

BiTS: Well, have you been able to sell some?

HS: Yeah, vinyl has been a bit tricky, but we've pretty much sold out of the CDs,

so that's been good. We need to get some more of those.

BiTS: And I gather from what you just said, plans to make a new one. Tell me

something about that.

HS: Yeah, well, we want to just do original songs really more and more. So yeah,

that's the goal is to have a second album like all originals, and I think that will

get us more noticed on the festival circuit and things like that.

BiTS: How far is that down the line now?

HS: We're hoping to make it a pretty quick turnaround, just kind of get it out for

maybe next year like 2025.

BiTS: Oh, wonderful.

HS: We've already got a few songs down. We wrote one in New Orleans. Our

bass player came up with a great song about food called ‘Hamburgers and Po
Boys’.

BiTS: [Laughing] Tell me something about the trip to New Orleans. Did you all

go together?

HS: Yeah, we managed to get all four of us there in the end. Adam’s pretty busy
with his young kid, so he almost didn't make it, but he managed to escape for the

two weeks and join us. So that was, yeah, all four of us.

BiTS: And what did you do while you were there?

HS: Just a lot of eating [laughs], a lot of music. We did one gig. Didn't make any
money, but we're not supposed to. And then we had two sort of busking sessions,

which just made a little money. And we joined this guy called Les Getrex, who's

like a local blues legend. And the fact he didn't kick us off after one song, was a

good compliment to us. We played a few sets with him, and just a general sort of

going to see other people play and busk and stuff. Yeah, it was brilliant.

BiTS: You went out in the streets busking, yes?