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they’d been to see Alice play in London when the original band played and that’s a gig that I
went to as well, but they went backstage – I didn’t know they were going – and she said, yes I
know Dennis and I know Alice and I’m thinking oh, this is brilliant. I said if you see Dennis
again can you talk to him? Ask him if he’ll play this song. So she did. Months and months and
months later, he came back and said yes, he would. But then me and the producer decided we
wanted him to play on this song instead of the other one, so I asked him if he’d do that, and he
very graciously said he would and he recorded it in America. He recorded it in Connecticut,
and it was the most amazing thing for me being a massive fan. When the CDs came out, I still
can’t believe it looking at it now that it says Dennis Dunaway. It’s quite fantastic.

BiTS: There’s a photograph of Dennis on your website with the most amazing bass with what
looks like holes through it.

RK: Yes, I think that’s his billion-dollar
baby bass, I think. The bass that he used
on the record, actually, he told me later,
was the one that he leant John Lennon to
use on his rock and roll album.

BiTS: Really?

RK: Yes, so I was quite taken aback.
Because all these little facts, I quite like

all these things.

BiTS: Isn’t it a small world, my
goodness gracious [laughing].

RK: Absolutely, yes and he didn’t have to
tell me that. He just told me in an email.
Oh, by the way, that bass John Lennon
used that bass. So the same bass John
Lennon used is on my record. So all of
these little things add little frissons.

BiTS: Actually, believe it or not, that John Lennon album is one of my very favourites of his
[laughing].

RK: Oh well, there you are then. Yes, little tendrils of connections all over the place
[chuckling].

BiTS: Tell me something about making the new album. First of all, where was it done and
secondly, did you manage to get your standard producer, I think you call him ‘The Boss’, Paul
Win Winstanley?

RK: Well, no, because this particular – it’s like a five-track just a small thing really because no, I
wasn’t going to get Win involved because that costs me loads of money [chuckles] and as much

as I love him, and I do love him very dearly, and he’s brilliant, so it was the first gig that this
band had done. We did it in July at the Prince Albert in Brighton and they just happened to
have put in a system for recording all the tracks. So I said to them can I have the tracks when
it’s done? So I managed to pick five songs that were acceptable due to varying degrees. They
missed two songs out at the beginning, which was a bit of a shame, otherwise it would have
been a longer album, so I mixed them all at home because I have a studio at home. So I mixed it
all here and it’s just going to go out on the website because things like Spotify and iTunes and