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BiTS: Now, I gather that you've got 16, I think you said, tracks for the album. Can
you tell me, are they all songs written by Matt and have they been previously
recorded, or what’s the position about the actual music?

FL: Yes, they're all, apart from one, they're all Matt's original songs. And yes, they're
off the various albums, the Catfish albums, or the Matt Long and the Revenant Ones
album, which was his slightly heavier project.

BiTS: Yes.

FL: So they're all written by
him apart from one, which is

the title track, ‘With A Little
Help From My Friends’, which
obviously, you know, higher

up the food chain, that was
Lennon/McCartney. At the
final benefit gig, that was the

encore. So we had The
Cinelli's and Brave Rival and
Ben Poole on that, and Will
Elles Bailey
Wilde. So that was a really
spectacular end to the show
and because there were so

many people involved in that,
we thought it would be really nice to include that as the closing song and it's also
given the name to the album, because obviously, without “A Little Help from My

Friends”, we wouldn't be able to do any of this album. The support of his friends in
the music industry is critical.

BiTS: Well, that answers one question I was going to ask you, and that's the title of
the album, but now, I know, don't I [laughs]?

FL: [Chuckles] Yeah, absolutely.

BiTS: Okay. Tell me some of the people that have come forward and what songs

they're participating in.

FL: Yes. Well, for example, we've got Elles Bailey doing a version of ‘Better Days’.
We've got Cinelli Brothers who are doing – what are they doing? ‘Hit the Ground

Running’. ‘Soulbreaker’ is being done by When Rivers Meet. ‘Exile’ is being done by
Sean Webster. ‘Have My Say’, which is off the Revenant Ones album, is done by Zac

Schulze. That's incredible. That's like 100 miles an hour. ‘Take It All’ is being done
by Blue Nation. ‘Archangel’, which is a big, epic, slow track, is being done by Alice
Armstrong. ‘Up In Smoke’ by Brave Rival.