Beans on Toast, do you
want to introduce yourself and tell us your talents? What have you been up to
today?
Good morning, I'm
Beans on Toast drunk folk singer from Essex. I've just woken up. I'm on tour
across the pond right now and currently in Chicago. Which is very
nice indeed, a great city and I'm playing at a place called the beat Kitchen
tonight.
When was the last time
you had beans on toast, what is the perfect beans on toast
(type/presentation/etc)?
They don't have Beans
on Toast in the USA, which is a pain cos nobody understands my name out here.
Wasn't long ago since I had it, but if I'm honest I do prefer spaghetti hoops,
that just didn't have the same ring to it.
You are going out on a
huge long tour playing around the UK, what are the personal essentials you pack
for tour, any lucky mascots?
No much to be honest,
I like to travel light. T shirt, pants, guitar, phone, wallet. Don't need much
else to tour.
Are you heading out on
this tour alone?
No i"ll be with
my long time touring partner and right hand man Mr Bobby Banjo and where
possible my wife Lizzy Bee will join us. On the tour is also the band Tensheds,
a fantastic duo from Hebden Bridge and Sky Smeed a Country singer from Kansas,
Sky will be jumping in the van with us aswell. He's a blast.
Do you have any bad
travel or tour stories from the past?
Bad stories?? Not me
officer. It's all good out here. Never been one to complain.
You are heading out on
tour in preparation for your new album, ‘A SPANNER IN THE WORKS’
which sees you take a new direction including electronics. How did you come to
start experimenting with this new sound?
This was my 8th album,
I like to make each one with a different person in a different place and decided
to do this one utilizing the incredible array of sounds you can make on a
laptop computer, I wrote the whole album on guitar then set about to record
them without guitar at all. We put the whole thing together in a few sessions.
It was fun and I'm really proud of the record.
You collaborated with
Scampi Dan on this album did his decisions influence how the album turned out?
Dan's a really good
old friend of mine, so was a pleasure to work with. It was actually him that suggested
doing a record without guitars so that was a big influence.
Are we expecting more
loops at the shows turning you into a punk Jack Garrett?
Not at all. Live shows
will stay with the guitar, banjo, harmonica set up. Thats who the songs were
written. Not gonna start bring a laptop on stage, that not my vibe.
Can you pick one song
to sum up the album?
Probably Afternoons in
the sunshine which will be the next song that people hear from the record. It's
got bass heavy samples, interesting drum loops and some live trumpet. Which
gets the idea across.
Final last words?
Just be nice and keep
it real x
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