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BiTS: Okay. I love the one that you've issued, ‘Come With Me’. I think it's absolutely fabulous. Tell
me something about that as a song, and also about the video as well, which I think may have been
made in a church. Is that right, or not?

DA: Yes. Well, it still operates occasionally as a church, but it's now a community space, multipurpose
space. It's an interesting place in its own right, actually. The problem with me when I wrote that

song, I was very aware, and this sounds strange because looking back on the recording, the original
album and recording all of it, it was quite fast and gruff and almost heavy. But it was very meek and
mild compared to everything else that I was doing at the time [chuckles], which was like a million
miles an hour and it was probably more like acoustic punk than blues, which is maybe why the Blues
Police hated me so much then [laughs].

BiTS: I wasn't joking when I said I think it's a beautiful song because what you've done is taken it

at what I would only call a very, very relaxed pace, in fact, in some senses it's not rhythmic at all.

DA: No. Even in its initial incarnation, when I wrote the song, it was an attempt to be a bit more
mellow and do something that was a bit milder, I guess. A bit more accessible. Looking back it probably
wasn't as accessible as I think I've made it now. I think I've made it a bit more appealing, probably
to a wider audience, but the album itself really, I decided that it would be a good idea to do what I've

done with ‘Come With Me’, with a load of other tracks.

BiTS: Tell me something else about the other stuff that we haven't heard yet. What are you working

on? Are you doing any mastering or anything at the moment, or is it all done and you're just waiting
to put the tracks out?

DA: The album is actually ready to go. It's not going to come out until the beginning of November,
but in between now and then, ‘Come With Me’ is the first of a series of six singles, and I am kind of
testing the water with a strategy that is more akin to mainstream music, pop music [laughs], in that
I’m releasing digital singles, but not just releasing them as digital singles. For instance, with Spotify,

there's this technique called a waterfall release where you almost build up to the full album release.
So it kind of takes the stats and the traction from the previous single and adds it to the next one, then
adds it to the next one. So that's part of the method and the madness of doing a digital single every