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thing led to another and I guess I suddenly found myself being a singer as well as a guitar player

and I got offered a residency at that bar and was down there pretty much every week, some
evenings playing a three or four-hour set, which is a hell of a long time to hold an audience. It was
a real learning curve for me, but I think it's held me in good stead, particularly in terms of touring
when you're on the road for two or three months and I always think well, yeah, I might be playing
shows every night, but actually, this isn't quite as taxing as when I was up on stage playing a four-

hour set in front of quite a few drunk people who want to be entertained! So that was a really
special venue for me in terms of my development as a musician.

BiTS: How do you describe your music? You have been described as kind of a southern blues-rock.
Is that what it is you think you play, or what?

JH: Well, I think I

do two things. I've
got a band with
Felipe Amorim and
Lazarus
Michaelides and we

do, I guess, blues-
rock. It has more of
a rock vibe than
the blues stuff, but
I've always done
acoustic blues, so
I've done I don't

know how many
shows supporting
albums that are
released under that
kind of guise. I

think the blues will
always be at the root of what I do, but I'm a big fan of metal as well. I listen to a lot of [Iron]
Maiden and that sort of stuff, but I think that’s quite interesting. I think it's a melting pot of
different genres and I try not to put a label on it. I'm fully aware that some of the heaviest of what
I do that sounds I guess a little bit Soundgarden rather in parts and that sort of thing, might not be
the cup of tea of people who came across my music in terms of the softer blues stuff, the acoustic
stuff, but hopefully, people dig it and I do think that there is a massive crossover and there are fans

of both that seem to like the blues stuff as well the blues-rock metal stuff as well.

BiTS: Yeah. You've had two big records for yourself, "Who Feeds the Wolf?" and "Paint No
Fiction", but you must have made other records as well. My apologies for not having heard of them.

JH: Well, you know what, if you haven't heard of them, it's probably just they’re not very good. I
dunno, I've played on loads of stuff. When I was in London initially, I was playing on various
artists’ records. I did a bit of session work for a while and it's quite removed from what I do now.
There was quite a lot of pop stuff I played on, back when I had a proper haircut and the ability to