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PF: Yeah, they're great. And Alex is the guitarist from that band, and he's got this
studio, and I'd got the files from ATA and mixed it there over a couple of days.

BiTS: Did you record it straight off or did you do overdubs and that sort of thing?

PF: Yeah, there's a few overdubs, but not many. I mean, most of it was originally
recorded in Leeds in a day. And then there were bits of overdubs that needed to be

done because of the bleed, and there were a few extras like the tracks where it's just
myself and Sam on piano. We brought them in from some gigs, particularly from The
Dorothy Pax in Sheffield, where myself and Sam did a great, great concert.

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

PF: I don't know. I'm a bit close to it really. I do really like the last track, which is a
12-bar, ‘Sticking The Knife In Blues’. I love how that turned out, and I really like ‘Thrill

Has Gone’ because that has a certain bleakness to it all.

BiTS: Yes, absolutely.

PF: And I really do like ‘Midnight Train’, and ‘Keep The Blues Alive’ as well, is a

personal favourite. That's an original that was written about the lockdown and trying
to get to the Czech Republic.

BiTS: Oh, right. I hadn't realised that.

PF: Yeah, because the festival
that we ended up playing was
called Blues Alive.

BiTS: Right. Okay.

PF: So the slot was cancelled
because of COVID, so we had

to wait a year [laughs].

BiTS: Tell me something, do
you play any instrument, Pat?

PF: I do, but not on this
album. I'm surrounded by
some real virtuosos, so there

wasn't really much point in
me getting my substandard keyboard skills or my trumpet out [laughs]. I was more

than happy to sing along to these lads.

BiTS: You say the trumpet. I remembered I saw a photograph of you with a trumpet,
somewhere or other.

PF: Yeah, I used to love putting horn sections on my band, Kava Kava, and when we

got to play Glastonbury and some of the bigger stages I would hire like a two or three