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ones. I mean not that every artist hasn’t had breakup songs, but everyone has
breakup songs. Those are very much lyric led, as is the sort of more folky song, which
is track eight on the album, something like that. Basically, I have no set method which

is simultaneously very nice from a point of view of it giving me a lot of variety, and
it's also incredibly frustrating because I can never recreate it twice. It always just
kind of happens.

BiTS: Yeah, right. Tell me something about the band that you've got. Who are they?
I know nothing about them at all.

AD: Well, so weirdly enough, on the record,

everything on there is me, apart from the
drums, and I think there is one song where
I got a bassist in as well.

BiTS: I'm even more impressed then in that
case.

AD: Ah, thank you very much. I must admit

though, I do bow down that. I wish I could
play everything live but it doesn't quite
work like that, does it? So basically my live

band, I feel it’s more of a collective in the
sense that I use a variety of musicians
depending on availability, on where in the

country we are, what I'm doing at that
particular point. Obviously, I have my, not my go-tos, but I do have two go-tos who
are my drummer, and my bassist called Rio and Alex and they are both local to North

Devon, where I am at the minute. Lovely guys.

Basically I wanted to tour with them and sadly neither of them could make it, so that
led to the formation of a completely different band, but what I love is each line up

brings its own expression to my music. So there are the album versions, which are
exactly how I envisioned it and everything that I want from that and kind of the only

input beyond that is maybe a couple of little production notes over a certain sound
or anything like that from whichever producer I'm working with. But then the live
sound, it has that flexibility and it also means that no two concerts are the same.
Which is, I mean, from a point of view of when you're rehashing the same songs over

and over and over again, it's absolutely fantastic.

BiTS: Tell me something about making the album as I now gather you did most of
it yourself. In a studio, obviously, or have you got a studio at home?

AD: No. I'm in a very privileged position I fully admit, in that I happen to know three
absolutely fantastic producers. And so I ended up working with each of them in turn,
depending on when I recorded the song and also what I was doing at that particular

point in time. So all of the songs start off as demos which I record myself, in what I