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GW: Since then, I've recorded the “What's Going On” album, and then “Tonight At Noon”.

BiTS: Am I right in thinking you did a collection of other things? I forget the title of it now.

GW: Yes, it was called “Anthology”.

BiTS: That's the one I was thinking of, yes. Now the latest one is a little unusual, I think, in that
you've recently been signed to a

Saskia Griffiths-Moore record label.
GW: That's correct. Yes, signed
last May with Bad Monkey
Records, on a three-year contract,
so we're just getting going now,
really.

BiTS: How did that come about?
I mean, how did you actually get
signed? What was the process?

GW: Well, it started during
lockdown. I signed up to a group
called Talent is Timeless, which is
a group for song writers over the age of 50, to collaborate and get together, and there’s a song
writing competition. It was organised by a singer-songwriter called Saskia Griffiths-Moore, who
ironically is well under 50. I think she's late 20s, early 30s. She saw a gap in the market for over
50 song writers, people who don't seem to be able to get the music out there as much as younger
people do. That was sort of the principles behind it and because it was lockdown, everything was
done via Zoom, but we had a six-month course whereby we had seminars, we had song writing
collaborations. We had guests. People, AR people from the business, studio engineers, producers.
We even had Elles Bailey came on one day talking about being an independent artist, and from
all this, as well as making music, we had a concert at the Bedford in London at the end of it, we
also got to write down and establish a plan forward, really of what we want to do with our music
career. One of the main things on there for me was to get help, i.e., with a record label and pick
out the right one and spent you know a lot of time searching round trying to pick the right record
label.

BiTS: Ged, was this a long time coming? I mean, had you been trying to find somebody to support
you in this way for some time, and if so, how?

GW: Yes, I had done, but the idea of a record label back in our day in the 60s and 70s, a
modern-day record label is nothing like it and obviously it would be very difficult to get signed
by a big label. So it's really reassessing what record labels do today. What I needed more than

anything was help, guidance. Being a solo artist, it's always good to have another pair of ears and
another voice to suggest things, but also the PR side of things, and that's what I looked for. I got
in contact with Bad Monkey. They called me, said let's have a chat, see what we both want and
if we meet in the middle. And we did. They are keen for me to hold the artistic licence. They don't
tell me what music to put out, which is great. Obviously they want it to be good music [laughs].

BiTS: I promise you we'll get to the album in a moment, but there are going to be a lot of people
out there reading this who will want to try and do something similar to what you've done. Is
there any piece of advice that you could give to people?