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shave, I was with bands for a little while as a session player and so that taught me a lot as well in

terms of studio techniques and basically being a professional and so yeah, I've done loads of stuff. I
did a solo album initially, I think it was about 2013 my first solo record, but that was done on my
iPad in Italy in the mountains. I went on holiday with my partner and yeah, I was just stuck up
there with an acoustic guitar and my iPad and recorded it all there, but it's not the sort of stuff that
people who've discovered me over the last two or three years perhaps, will know, but there's good

tunes on there. It's just my voice sounds like it hasn't broken yet, so it sounds a bit wimpy,
whereas two or three years of solid gigging at Ain't Nothing But, and drinking so much whisky
whilst I'm performing, I think it just destroyed my voice in terms of that soft angelic vibe I had in
2013, but I think it sounds better now.

BiTS: You don't have an
angelic vibe now, Jack.

JH: Yeah, blame Jack
Daniel's [chuckles].

BiTS: [Laughs] You have

played quite literally all
over the world, Brazil,
Spain, Russia, France, all
over the place. Is there one
outstanding gig that you

Jack is back at Momentum Studios in Devon continuing work on his next album, had where you suddenly
'The Hammer Falls'. thought to yourself, good
grief, what on Earth am I
doing here?

JH: Yeah, I mean there's been tons of gigs where yeah, you kind of go through this sort of feeling
of oh, my god, this is absolutely insane and as you say, I've played in some quite interesting places.

When I toured the Czech Republic a couple of years ago, that was amazing. I really enjoyed that
experience. I played with some fantastic musicians over there and that was a really kind of, what
would I say about that tour? It was quite relaxing. We were playing quite posh, hall venues, and we
were treated really well by the promotors over there and that was a lot of fun but in terms of the
gig that stands out in my mind really in terms of my career and feeling actually the last 15 years
have been worth it, was when we played in Brazil at the tail end of 2019. We did a tour over there
that culminated with a Biscoito Festival where there's 8000 people watching us which is the

biggest audience I've ever played to and I've played big festivals over here like BluesFest and
Ramblin’ Man but yeah, to play to 8000 people in Brazil and one of the weirdest things was we got
offered this tour bus that we'd been given for the tour and I'm thinking how does anybody know
me over here, but we got off the tour bus and people were shouting my song titles at me. I just
thought the promoters had done such a good job of communicating my stuff to people over there

and we did another gig in Brazil where there was this 20ft poster of me on the side of the building
and I was thinking oh, my god, they really do love their rock and roll over there.

BiTS: What a wonderful experience.