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are starting to book, and it looks like from the end of this month into April, things are picking up.

Definitely picking up.

BiTS: I see you’ve got a gig on March 11th in Horsham in The Rec.

SK: Yes, that’s right, The Rec Rooms.

BiTS: And at Arlington Arts also at the end of March as well.

BiTS: That’s wonderful. Sam, I’m not going to take any more of your time.

SK: [Laughs] I hope what I’ve been saying to you makes sense because my whole kind of career, in

a sense, has been not disjointed, but there was no plan, there’s been no plan and it’s just sort of
luckily evolved. Being in the right place at the right time, hopefully.

BiTS: Sometimes organic development like that is the best.

SK: It’s worked for me. It’s really worked for me. I’ll give you an example, I did a gig some years
ago with Papa George, down in Putney, and the guest guitar player - because it was a birthday party

- and the guest guitar player was Gary Moore. There’s lots and lots of stories about Gary being very
belligerent, very intolerant of other musicians and so on. My attitude towards it is, I don’t care who
the hell you are, if you get on there and you play at 11 volume-wise, I’m going to make you look very
silly because I can. I can rock twelve bars in anything, so I don’t really give a damn because I’m
never going to work with you.

Anyway, to cut the story short, we got on stage, and he played, and he played superbly. He was

quiet and he and I got on like a house on fire. He said I’m doing an album in a month, six weeks. I
would like you to come and play on this album. Have you got a card? I gave him the card and as
musicians do, you think there goes another tree. Bye-bye.

Then he called me up and I played on his album. That’s the sort of thing that I’m talking about. It
just happened organically. If I hadn’t been there, I doubt very much if that would have happened.
It’s been very fortunate. I think of myself as being extremely fortunate and to still be doing it and

still loving it.

BiTS: Sam, thank you very much indeed for talking to me. It’s been an absolute pleasure and please
keep on going for a long time yet.