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whatever afterwards. So it’s all based around a live performance and that continued
with these tracks, apart from ‘Forevermore And Again’, which was the one that Sam
found. He was sitting on her kitchen floor, strumming an acoustic guitar and humming

a melody and he sang the odd line of lyric, and it was the title line, and then Sam found
some lyrics on his phone, which were based around that title. So they were obviously
the words for that song. Then I used a lot of expensive software to separate Matt’s

humming and the guitar, so I had them separately.

BiTS: There's clearly quite a lot of expertise in management of software that you've
undertaken. Tell me something about what was actually my favourite track on the

album, and that is the Albert King song ‘Breaking Up Somebody's Home’, which I think
the version here is absolutely fabulous.

Albert King PL: Oh, thank you. That's the only cover

version on the album. It's a song we've
done live for many years, and it never
really seemed to have a home on an album,

although we had recorded it. It’s a special
arrangement. We'd never played this
arrangement live because when we played

it live, we had all sorts of audience
participation and sing along, and Matt
would walk around the venue with his

guitar and his wireless and sort of play
quite extended solo. We thought, that’s no
good, so we did a special arrangement of

it just for the studio, and so yeah, that was
a real one off that one. And that song, that

vocal, that track had no vocal on it and so
the vocal on that came from a performance
we did at the Cranleigh Arts Centre in
2022. So I was able to take the vocal from there and put it on the recording.

BiTS: Absolutely terrific. And forgive me for using such a blunt expression, you really
can't see the joins. There's no way that you can tell that this is anything otherwise
than a normally recorded record.

PL: I'd like to think that's true, and it was a normally recorded record apart from the
guitar part is what Matt played in studio that day, which he would have wanted to
replace, and he hadn't done a vocal, so that came from a live performance. So yeah, it

was all about live playing with us, really. Matt was much more happy playing live than
he was recording, actually. As a process, he found recording a bit intimidating.

BiTS: Oh, did he? That's interesting. Why do you think that was?