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So what you hear there is what we’re like live really. I'd say a little better live
because that's our sort of natural habitat really.

BiTS: And you write some songs as well. How do you go about writing songs? Do

you have to wait for inspiration, or do you constantly jot things down?

HS: Yeah, it’s a case of constantly jotting things down. And yeah, sometimes you

just have to force yourself to kind of sit down, turn off the Internet and just write

some stuff. You plonk yourself down at the keyboard or just get the harmonica

out, whatever it is. So there's some quite bloody mindedness to it a lot of the time.

I think waiting for inspiration is a bit of a myth really. Yeah, I think you just need
to be constantly thinking about it and just writing things down.

BiTS: I see you've got a festival in your gig lineup coming up fairly shortly.

HS: We've got a little Gloucester Blues Festival. We’re playing in the Pelican in

Gloucester. I think it's like
Mud Morganfield multiple pubs sort of playing on

a Blues Festival, as far as I'm

aware.

BiTS: Bit like they do at

Swanage.

HS: Yeah, we're looking

forward to it. Should be a nice

one.

BiTS: Do you have any plans for

more festivals? I mean, really what I'm asking you here is where do you aim to

be, say, in a year or so’s time?

HS: Yeah, doing way more festivals of the blues variety, I guess, and just general

more touring around. We want to get around the country and maybe even Europe.
Definitely back in the States at some point. But yeah, I think that's going to be

where we need to sort funding for that. I think we would do that again, but yeah,

definitely the UK and Europe as a first stop.

BiTS: Are you planning to do some sort of a tour?

HS: Yeah, we're trying to put something together for this autumn/winter sort of

time. It's proving quite difficult because there are unknowns, you know, further