What on earth
inspires you?
Mud and guts and lanes and fields.
My friends and my girl. Folk music. It's raining outside
in Liverpool, where I live at the moment, and it will
rain for the next seven months, so I have to try and
be inspired by the damp.
You toured with John Martyn,
how was that?
When it started I hadn't played
to a thousand people before, all sitting and listening
for a pin to drop. There's nothing better than getting
an audience on your side who weren't expecting it. John's
a lovely man and he's been very good to me. Those tours
were a great experience, but playing to thirty people
is still scary.
This is a blank question,
in fact, not a question at all! Please just say what
you feel!
I feel good. As I write I am
chewing on muesli, which is a tasteless, horrible thing.
It is a disciplinary measure designed to counteract
the excesses of touring. There are few jobs which allow
you to behave absolutely appalingly, and I should like
to stay on the good side of my conscience. However!
I have a policy of trying out a Curry House in every
town, should the opportunity arise. I am fascinated
by them and find them to be that rare thing, a place
where tension and relaxation exist side by side, at
times nullifyng each other so that what you get is a
place that is very much like the physical embodiment
of a trance. Though the body disagrees with the ingestion
of spiced meats at midnight, the mind finds the situation
to be elevating, almost transcendental. 'Everest' in
Cheltenham does an astonishing Tandoori Lamb.
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