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excited to hear the whole of his new album. And hopefully, tour with him again because we did
actually have a Poland tour postponed just before March 2020 when everything locked down
and shut down. We were due to go on the road that April, and of course, it all got cancelled. So
that still needs to happen because we did play a couple of Polish festivals in 2019 together, which
were a great success, so that was the reason for the tour. So yes, it would just be great to get back
on the road with Krissy as well because we do get on really well and perform – we gel together
on stage, you know.

BiTS: Yeah, I'm sorry you cut out right
at the very beginning of that. So I didn't
hear what you said about the person
who it is that you're going to be working
with.

CLM: So, yes, I'm going to be on Krissy
Matthews' new album, due out later this
year. He called me up and asked if I
would guest on a couple of tracks. So
that's what I did. I recorded at home
because, you know, there's a few
hundred miles between us, so I had to
record at home, which isn't my
favourite thing to do, if I'm honest. I do
find it a bit of a bore, like.

BiTS: Is that something you're going to
continue doing? What are your plans for
the future to go back to performing?

CLM: Yes, I do miss performing and
being out on the road. My band, at the
moment, they're all taking a bit of time out. My guitarist Max, he had some ill health at the start
of the year, so he's sort of out of action for a few months, really. I mean, he's still teaching, he's
doing really well, he's recovering really well, but he can't be out on the road, say, for like days at
a time or anything. So my own music with what was my band is taking a backseat really at the
moment. I think I need to figure out a new path really with my music.

BiTS: How old is the baby now?

CLM: I guess she's not so baby anymore. She'll be two in July, so yes, it's been amazing. That's
another journey altogether.

BiTS: But are you actually looking for gigs at the moment or not?

CLM: The thing is with my gigs because I’m living back in Wales now as well, a lot of my work
is away, you know, or up and down the country. It’s not really on my doorstep, so like I say, I
don't want to be away from my little one, not at the moment anyway, while she's still so young.
Unless, like I say, she can be with me. I have done gigs, and she's been there backstage. I actually
did my first gig after having her, she was five weeks old, and she actually was backstage with my
husband. So she's actually been to about four or five gigs of mine, and I played a festival last year
with my band in North Wales, which was the North Wales Blues and Soul Festival, and again, on
my doorstep. But a lot of my work was away from home, and I don't want to do that right now.
With her being so young, I don't want to leave her.