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you get real vocals on some of the modern dance music and I still enjoy that as well,

yeah. But I guess I'm having my midlife crisis now and I've gone back to the stuff I
was listening to as a student, which was stuff like Hendrix and a lot of the blues greats,
and it's a real joy to get to sing those out in the venues. I love it.

BiTS: Yeah, it's absolutely terrific. First of all, before we start talking about the current
record, tell me about the “Live in Prague” one.

PF: Okay, well, because my

band, Kava Kava, had done an
awful lot of dates in the Czech
Republic, we'd been doing

ten date tours in that
particular country, I'd got to
know a number of really cool

songs and I collaborated a bit
with a friend of mine on his

band called Urfaust, which
featured Gary Lucas, an
American guitarist who had
co-written a lot of the Jeff

Buckley stuff and had collaborated with people like Lou Reed and all kinds of greats.

Gary was in this band of Urfaust, and I ended up doing a blues project with Richard
Mader, the guy who ran the studio, and we did it on breakfast telly. We played a

number of kind of blues festivals out there and that was really, really cool and
eventually we did an album called “Dark Side Of The Blues (Pat Fulgoni Live In

Prague)”, but obviously like it was hard to
go outside the Czech Republic because the
musicians were mainly from Czech. I think
I parked it for a number of years because

I was busy with other stuff, and then just
before lockdown, I really had the desire to

form a blues band, and I ended up getting
a call from this guy that was putting on a
gig for a local food bank in Huddersfield.

He said, I've seen your blues. I really want
you to play at this benefit gig, and I was
going well it's highly unlikely that we can

persuade the Czech musicians to go over
and it's going to cost a lot of money if we
did so it wouldn't be raising much for the

food bank, and so he persuaded me to form