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BiTS: Am I allowed to know your real name.

MB: You can. Are you going to print it though? No.

BiTS: No I won’t.

MB: My name is *******. I found very early on from previously

using social media to promote myself as a singer when I did guest
vocals for different genres like dance and pop, people get very
interested in you and then if you use your real name they kind of
find you and then they start messaging your children. I learnt
early on to have a pseudonym and just do that because it gives

you a little bit of protection and privacy.

BiTS: That’s very sensible, I think, in today’s atmosphere. It’s
not very pleasant for some people and I wouldn’t want you to be
Eddie Mac Scoundrels at the Blues Club
one of those.

MB: No, absolutely. Thank you. Just as Malaya Blue I’ve had

experiences of individuals who get a little bit hung up on you and
want to kind of bombard you with intimate images of themselves,
etc. You have to be so cautious and I’ve had people contacting my
children. Finding them through my personal page, so that’s why we use the pseudonym.

BiTS: I listened earlier on to the new single, which is very good indeed. I love it. The guitar
playing is fabulous. Who is it?

MB: That’s a chap called Nat Martin.

BiTS: Absolutely terrific stuff.

MB: He’s a really lovely tasty guitarist and he was an absolute joy to work with and he brought so
much vibe to the album with his rhythm guitar and with his lead guitar. Really really fantastic
guitarist and yes, absolutely, there’s plenty of Nat on the album. You’ll hear him everywhere and
he did a fantastic job.

BiTS: No doubt it will appear before very long. Tell me when you went into the studio did you do
the album all in one go or was it done over a length of time?

MB: No, we went into the studio for five days and we did all the tracks. Unfortunately, I was very
very ill with a bad chest and a bad cold, so I didn’t do any vocals, but actually, that gave me time to
work with the arrangements as they’d been done live. When we take the tracks into the studio,
they’re effectively midi tracks and then of course when the boys start vibeing together and playing

you get a little bit more push and pull in different places, so I had time to sit and work with that
vocally before I went in the studio and recorded the vocals. Then we went in and I did all the vocals