Early Days

It was a three-piece that consisted of Del Palmer on bass
Brian Bath on Guitar and uh, Vic Smith who was the drummer
Yes, we did uh, clubs and pubs in the London area but this only was three months
No longer than that
It was just the experience I wanted at that point
I was looking for things that would take me further into where I wanted to go
Which was music the business, and I'd been training as a dancer
And this felt like the perfect stage really to uh, go into a live situation

I think uhm, it was probably the least experimental of all the albums
I'd written, say 200 songs
From which we choose... chose the 13 songs that went on there
And uh, it was recorded very quickly, there was very little experimentation
It was something... it had a lot of the forethought gone into it

The last album you do is quite often your favorite one because uh, that's
The one you put the most energy into recently
But I think the fourth album had some very precious moments for me
So I would say that one for now, hm

I... I don't know what influences you
Between one and the other except your life really
You change with the environment
And my environment did change between the last album and this one
I moved out of the city and into the country
And I think those two energies are very apparent on both albums
The fourth album is very much an oppressed city atmosphere album
And this one... it's just released
It's very much a free air elemental album

I was getting fed up with being in London, yeah
I don't know about real need but um
I think it's a very good thing for me, I'm glad I did it
It certainly helped me relax as a person
No, I don't think you can say it drains your charisma
Because if anything uh, and I'm sure a lot of people would agree with me
A sense of depression and energy that you can get
From cities can be very, very productive to writing songs

But um, I found out I was getting too many distractions
That were stopping me having the time to
Concentrate on my writing
So rather than it being productive, it was getting in the way
But uh, certainly when I look out my window and there's trees and fields
I feel a lot happy than the concrete blocks out there