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language for a minute, but slightly shitty because it makes you like have to work at

it.

BiTS: Okay, so there's the young András with his brand-new guitar, how did you go
about learning? Did you have lessons, or did you just play along with records, or

what?

AD: Kind of a combination of things. So I had lessons at school in, I say a formal
sense, but it really was not formal lessons in the sense that there was a trumpet

player teaching children in primary school how to play guitar. And then I would
learn, again things by ear, exactly like that. I’d be listening to a record, figuring out
a lead line or I'd kind of

look up – this is the
golden age of early
Internet tabs. So we're

talking , what, 2010-
ish, where you'd go
online and you'd still

find these really
dodgily written up
‘how to play’ things at

guitar.com. And so
you’d go through, and
you’d learn all your

favourite solos, and
really looking back
now, I was dreadful, but

I thought I was an absolute God. Little 11-year-old me there trying to play ‘Hotel
California’.

BiTS: Okay. And did you learn to play tunes by following along or what?

AD: Kind of. Yeah. I think it very much depended on what it was. I think most of the
time I was sat there kind of, I’d put on the record, I try and play it as close to the
record as possible and then the more and more I got into it, the more and more I

started to like just learning by ear, and then I didn't actually start formal music
training until I was probably about 12/13/14, something like that. So I kind of had
all of that time to just absorb things aurally beforehand. That would be the way that

I kind of think about it.

BiTS: And I gather that shortly after that you started going to, I forget the name of
it now, a club where you could take floor spots and that sort of thing.

AD: Kind of. Yeah, so are you talking about the Palladium Club?

BiTS: Yes.