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else to think about. Otherwise, we'd be just sitting at home thinking about
what has happened. So actually, I've been quite grateful for the
distraction, to be honest.

BiTS: One thing that occurs to me as you're talking

is that I'm not sure when in relation to his death
this actually started. How long after he died?

FL: Not very long, probably about December time.

So he died in October and Dudley approached us, I think
it was probably end of November, beginning of
December, asked would we be interested in doing this if
he could set it up? And as I say, at the time that was just

a single track with Joe Bonamassa, but the Bonamassa
tracks on the album also still has Matt's vocal on it, so
that's rather nice that he's able to duet with him, even
if it's posthumously.

Joe Bonamassa BiTS: Well, it's been amazing how much stuff,
particularly Paul, has been able to resurrect from
just little bits on tapes in places.

FL: On the “Time To Fly” album, yeah. That's a
different album, obviously.

BiTS: Yes, no, I understand that, but it's amazing what's been put together, shall we
say?

FL: Yes, I mean, that really was a labour of love, because that was very, very quickly
after Matt died, that he started having to put that together. But it seemed a shame when
we'd got halfway through recording, or the guys had, the Catfish guys, had got halfway

through recording tracks for the new album and when we were going through Matt's
phone, we managed to find various bits and pieces, half-written songs and lyrics and
things. So Paul decided rather than just waste that, because some of his stuff was really

good, he would finish it, basically. So he took what he could from the recordings and
lifted Matt's vocal onto what he had, and then built the rest around that. So it was quite
a labour of love, literally, but I think it came out very well.

BiTS: Wonderful, absolutely terrific. And the release, I gather, is on Matt's would have
been birthday.

FL: That's the pre-release, so that's when people can start pre-ordering.

BiTS: Okay.

FL: And then the album itself probably won't be out until February, maybe March, we'd
think, because we're going to release quite a few singles from it because the tracks are

so strong that it's a shame not to showcase several of them, certainly. So the first
single comes out on Matt's birthday, which is the 7th of November, and that's also
the pre-sale launch.