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all that sort of stuff, for bands like me, it’s not pointless, but it’s a bit soul destroying really
because you might have 3,000 plays on this album, and you get nothing really. You get less
than nothing, really. So I decided just to put it out on the website and see how we go, really.

BiTS: Tell me something about the setup for it. How many mikes did you have, that sort of
thing?

RK: Oh, well blimey. That would be something that the engineer, Steve at the Albert would
know more about than I did because it’s one of these things where we didn’t set out to record
it because they just record a gig. So consequently, it’s probably not recorded up to the exacting
standards that you would expect if you were going into it knowing you were going to record a
live thing. So it is literally a raw gig.

BiTS: Were there tracks you had to throw away because the audience was making too much
noise or for any other reason?

RK: More for the just because the
mistakes that were made really
because, as I say, it was the first
gig we’d ever done as this band.
So to get five out of it, I thought I

was doing pretty well. And these
are only small things. They’re not
massive errors or anything. And
also, we had two backing
vocalists and only one of them
was recorded. Stuff like that. So I
had to sort of pick and choose
which ones would come out the
best in a mix that I could do at
home. So basically, that’s it really,
but everything that’s on there was what was played at the gig.

BiTS: Tell me about the band. Who are the band members?

RK: We’ve got Connor Baxter, who is the guitar player. He’s a young lad who lives in London.
Got a great bass player called Guilio Grancheli, who plays a lot of blues stuff in London town.
On the drums, I’ve got a guy from The Choirboys, called Pip Mailing, who’s a Brighton boy and
he’s been playing with The Choirboys and that for years and years and years. You know Will
Wilde, harmonica player?

BiTS: Yes., Brother of the singer Dani Wilde…

RK: Well, Will came up and played harmonica because Will’s a Brighton boy as well. I know
Will very well. And then two backing singers, Jade Woodhouse and Liva Steinberga and Jade
does her own thing. She does her own thing with Mike Ross. Mike Ross helps her. I actually
know Mike because Mike’s another pal of mine. He’s another Brighton lad.

BiTS: Do you have a favourite track on the album?

RK: I think ‘Mr TBelly Blues’, which is off the first album. All of them actually because there’s a
song called ‘Broken’ which is just me and the guitarist which Ross and I wrote. It’s like a bit of
a country song, really and I like that as well.