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Just looking at my wife, Margaret. She does all my tour management and booking and everything.
So she books them, and I play them [chuckles].

BiTS: [Laughs] What about foreign travels? Are you going to Estonia again with Roots or anything

like that?

DA: There's nothing in the diary, actually for this summer. Generally there is an Estonia and Finland
trip every year, but I think this year I'm going to be concentrating on the UK, and we'll go back to
overseas, picking up again there in 2026.

BiTS: That's hugely lucky for the UK.

DA: Well, sometimes I think perhaps I inadvertently took my eye off the ball in the UK a little bit

because we were so busy trying to develop things in the USA. We realised that. I think we realised
that when COVID came that we were putting in an inordinate amount of time and spending an awful
lot of time in the USA, sometimes three big, long tours a year. The current political climate doesn't
fill me full of hope for the USA.

BiTS: [Laughing] Me neither. Me neither.

DA: And that's not the people that like my music. I feel that they shouldn't really have to miss out
just because of you know

who, but it does make it
difficult, and it's not so
enticing at the moment, but
we will get back to that. It's
just trying to get everything

into perspective.

BiTS: Listen, Dave, Okay
the last thing is, you've got
somebody who's obviously
writing material to be
included with the album

lyric sheets, that sort of thing. How do you like people to think of you? You used to take the part of
this alt-musician. Do you still consider yourself to be an alt-musician?

DA: Yeah, I would say it probably is a little bit alternative blues. I think my live show is probably a
bit alternative to what certainly a blues audience would expect. I mean it’s 70 or 80% blues, but it
is a bit left field. It is probably a bit outside that. In the states it tends to be referred to as deep blues.
Now I don't really know where they're getting that from, but that's the way they tend to describe it.

I would still say it's kind of probably slightly alternative, alt-blues because so many people expect
when you hear the term blues, all they think of is ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ or Joe Bonamassa or Eric
Clapton or whatever. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is certainly an alternative. I don't think
it's run-of-the-mill what I do, and I don't think that because for any reason of quality or goodness.
I think it's just alternative from a point of view of being a bit different from maybe what everybody
would expect.

BiTS: Yeah, I think that’s absolutely right. I’d go along with that entirely.