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Country and Western fan, so I was introduced to that from a very, very young age
and kind of got into blues and bluegrass music through that. And then because my
dad played, naturally I think I started first playing when I was around five, and then

really got into it at around sort of ten, 11-years-old.

BiTS: When did you first start writing your own music?

ML: Oh, I would say I probably first started writing things within the first kind of

year or so of playing guitar. I would have been early teens, maybe 12/13 before I
was writing anything that had any real structure, but what I would call now to be
proper compositions, would be

probably more around sort of 15/16
years old.

BiTS: What drove you to learn to

play other instruments beyond the
guitar?

ML: I guess just getting into the

different genres. One of my biggest
heroes is Prince, and it always
baffled me that Prince could be so

prolific on so many instruments. So
I was like, I need to learn bass, that's
the first stop [chuckles]. So obviously

learned bass and then keys. I'm a big
fan of Vangelis and a lot of those
Vangelis
types of composers and film music
and stuff. So synth music came along,
and I just kind of got into it and thought right, I need to figure out how to create this

one as well.

BiTS: What's your ambition at the moment, Mitch?

ML: The ambition, obviously we've just released the new album, so we'll be out on
tour for this year and into next year, and we head to Spain later on in the year and

probably Poland early next, but I've already started to put together ideas for the
next record and the record beyond that. I'm thinking that this one might be kind of

the first in sort of an album arc. I’m just writing. I just want to make some legacy as
we only get a short amount of time on this earth.

BiTS: How does writing work for you? Do you get ideas in the middle of the night,

and you have to put them down, or what?

ML: [Laughs] Sometimes, sometimes. Sometimes it will be like that where they just
kind of arrive like on your lap out of nowhere and you feel like you have to capture

that moment in a bottle, that magic in a bottle before it gets passed on to someone