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BiTS:  Right. Tell me something about your plans for marketing the album. Clearly
     you won't be able to gig it. So how are you going to go about it?

     PL:  Well, it's just been released. We've already sold far more than any other album

     we made in advance to it coming out. We will be taking it with us with my new band
     because we'll be playing some of the songs. We'll be playing songs from Catfish that
     I wrote, including ‘Don't Turn Around’ and ‘Broken Halo’ which are the two big songs

     for me on the album. So we will have it with us.

     BiTS:  ‘Broken Halo’ is an absolute cracker, incidentally.

     PL:  Thank you. It's unusual for me to write an up-tempo rocky song like that. That

     was really Matt’s territory.

     BiTS:  It's a seriously rocky song. Actually when I was listening to the album, I was
                                                             quite  surprised  at  how  rocky  it  is

                                                             [chuckles].
         Chloe Josephine
                                                             PL:  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that song, we will
                                                             continue to play and ‘Don't Turn Around’,

                                                             which  is  the  long  sort  of  slightly
                                                             progressive blues one.

                                                             BiTS:  Absolutely wonderful.


                                                             PL:  Thank you. Chloe did some amazing
                                                             backing vocals on both those two songs
                                                             and she'd left Brave Rival when she did

                                                             that. She came round here to my studio,
                                                             and we spent two days.

                                                             BiTS: How did the support musicians, the

                                                             other people who were in the band, how
                                                             did they do their bits?

                                                             PL:  Well, Alex Voysey came to my studio

                                                             here to play some extra guitar parts, and
                                                             Chloe Josephine, formerly of Brave Rival,

                                                             she came here as well, and we spent two
                                                             days doing the four songs that she sings
                                                             on. The songs that Matt had done on his
     computer and the song which I wrote based around his guitar solo, we spent a couple

     of days in the studio in Lincolnshire with Phil Wilson, who was the drummer for
     Catfish in its final tour, and Ash Wilson as well and Adam and I. We played live in the

     studio to Matt’s vocal and guitar. We played along live to it.

     BiTS:  Wonderful. Wonderful. Now tell me something about the new band. I gather
     that’s started already. Are you getting many gigs?
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