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in the year, I suppose we will do another sort of studio-type album. I'm sort of writing

for that now, really.

BiTS: Are you writing a lot of songs at the moment or what?

TB: Oh, yes. I was about 5 minutes ago, I'm in the workshop and I have put the kettle

on and having a break No, I've over half-written another album already, so yes, I’m
always writing.

BiTS: Is it your plan to go into the studio fully prepared, or do you actually make up

stuff in the studio as well?

TB: I like a little bit of both, really.
Obviously, the songs to have the

structure, but sometimes it's nice
to have a little bit of space for
improvisation or for a little bit of

in-the-moment magic to happen.

BiTS: Like the kind of stuff that
happens when you're on the stage

as well.

TB: Exactly, exactly, and with the
fiddle player, well, the violin

player, we've never really done
many practices. She just sort of

improvises around me, which just
makes it lovely because I play the
songs differently, every time, you
know, slightly different. I'm not a

great counter of bars and what
have you, so I just play it as it comes, but she's good enough to follow me. But it does

make that feeling of that it's being improvised.

BiTS: Is there a theme to what you write? I mean, do you write a lot of songs that
are of a similar sentiment, shall we say?

TB: I try to write what comes into my head or parts about my life, really. I've just

written a song about my granddad, who had a bike and rode over the hill and started
another family on the other side of the hill. Yes, I'm just writing another song about

becoming mad [laughs]. And you know, anything that comes along really, things that
I try to pick out in my life, really, I think.

BiTS: You said quite proudly when we first started that you’d stuck with acoustic

guitars. How many have you got?

TB: I've got, I don't know, it must be maybe a dozen? I don't know [chuckles], maybe
more. I've been playing Resonators for a while now. I haven't been playing my one