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this or this, that and next thing and just incorporate the two together, so it works a treat. So I
kept it ever since.

BiTS: We’ll talk in a moment about the new album, but tell me first of all about the, I think,
two previous ones that you’ve done, “Dead Men Don’t Pray” and “I Never Want To See Me
Again”.

RK: Well, actually, “See Me Again” is
actually the last album, proper album.
So the first one came out in 2015, which
I had some of the guys, one of the guys
that I played in the Rollers with, Kevin
Magill and Ross Lardner, who was the
guitarist in the band for a while, and I
had them as a sort of permanent band.
Another label and that sort of stuff and
they put quite a lot of money into it, and
we were going to go to America. We had
a tour of America booked. We had about

15, 16 dates booked. And so there was a
lot of money being spent, but
unfortunately, we had trouble with the
visas just before we were going to go.
Not on our part, the American side and
we had to cancel it about two weeks
before we were going to go. So that sort
of put paid to that album, really, because
we’d spent all the money trying to go to
America. So that was that and then the last one was last year. “Never Want to See Me Again”,
yes, that was just more my money, really. It started just before lockdown and got a load of
session people in. It were great and then we mixed it over lockdown and stuff, so that was it,
really.

BiTS: A terrific song, the title song. I love it.

RK: Thank you very much.

BiTS: I take it you write most of the music for the band yourself, do you?

RK: I write all of it, yes. Well, apart from – I write all of it. On the first album, I think Ross, the
guitar player, he wrote one song, and we co-wrote a song as well. But on the last one, it was all
me because there isn’t a band as such. I pay session players to play, so the band is me, really.
Although the guys that played on the album, the last one, also did the last two gigs with me as
well and they’re fantastic.

BiTS: Tell me something about how you managed to hook Dennis Dunaway, Alice Cooper’s
bass player , into the set.

RK: Well, I’ve been a massive Alice Cooper fan since I was a kid from ‘School’s Out’ and all that
sort of stuff and I’d written another song, actually. Not that particular one. I love Dennis
Dunaway. I think he’s brilliant. In my fantasy world in my head, Dennis was already playing
bass on one of the tracks [laughs]. But that was just in my head. And then a couple of pals came
to see me and one of them —she is Ronnie Wood’s guitar tech —and she happened to say