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AD: I'm kind of. I'm on the fringe of guitar collecting. I'd say I'm at that point where
I'm aware it could tip one way or the other. My current count is, I think it's nine. So
we're not quite at ten. I have been at some point, but I've kind of culled it back a little

bit. I'm aware as well that for what I'm trying to do at the minute, I need to sort of,
what's the word, a workman’s approach, basically. I've got my workforce guitar
which is used for all the boring function stuff and then I've got my guitars that I use

for my music.

BiTS: Okay. Tell me something about the album, which incidentally, I must say I'm
very impressed with. Not for the reason that you may expect. I have never in all my

life heard a rock musician like yourself whose diction is so clear.

AD: Thank you very much. I will take that.

BiTS: I'm hugely impressed with it. You can hear the words to everything. I know

the words of ‘Painted Ladies’ already.

AD: Oh wow. Well, that is
high praise. Thank you so

much. I think that was
hammered home to me.
Basically, my parents are

from Northwest London
and so growing up in
Devon, it was absolutely

hilarious because both me
and my sister have quite
frankly RP accents where

everyone around me is like
this [West Country accent] and it's a little bit weird. So I think that has fuelled its

way into the album itself, but weirdly enough, the album is…It's a complete time
spanning thing. You know, there's that old adage where you have a lifetime to write
your first album and six months to write your second, like the adage for the first part
of that is definitely true. There are songs on there that I wrote when I was 16. There

are some from when I was 18. The most recent one on that album was written, I
think, just under a year before it was recorded. So it’s quite an amalgamation of

things.

BiTS: When you're writing a song, how do you go about it? Do you get the words
first or a melody first, or what?

AD: To be honest with you, it really depends on the song. There are some where it

would be a case of, I have a riff and I'm like, well, this is what we're going with and
then it just kind of forms from that. There are some where I have a phrase in my

head or just a concept of an idea which I go, okay, well, we'll run with that and see
where that goes. And some of them are very lyrical, for example, firstly the breakup