What did you do immediately after the band split?
I met a girl in Los Angeles I liked, so after the last tour, I went to live over there, with her.

Who have you worked with over the last two year?
I did some auditions for the Eels, and people like them, -- didn't get them -- because I didn't have a car. Because if you live in L.A. and you don't car it's a big problem because there's no public transport.

I've been doing music for about six months, nine months, and a friend of mine who was the studio engineer who was doing the last, most recent K.D. Lang album [Invincible Summer] in Hollywood and he knew I was out in L.A. and called me up. I went down and did three tracks with K.D. Lang, which was really cool. Good money, got to meet some interesting people. So that was the last I did.

And then I came back from America in last spring. Prior to that I did some sessions with Stephen Street with a girl called This Horseman which is now out on EMI.

I got back to the U.K. and I landed another session with a girl band called Supersister, who was one of the 37 girl bands launched last year on the heels of the Spice Girls and All Saints.

I don't even know if that single's come out yet [the single is called "Coffee"]. So hopefully it'd come out soon. That's Super Sister, that's on Gut Records.

You've moved back to England now. Why England ? Why Brighton?
The relationship I was in had split up and my work visa that I had expired and so I didn't want to stay illegally so I came home. I moved to Brighton because my brother brought a big house here. I didn't want to be in London, because the rent was too high, and it's a bit of a crap-hole, really. So seeing like Brighton was the place to be I came to visit a bit. Liked it so much, stayed with him for about six months and just got my own place.

You've seen, in the studios, with Louise from Sleeper last year. Can you say what that was about?
Lou and Andy has been doing some... they've been continuing to write songs and do demos, and they've struck a friendship with this guy, these two guys, James and Nigel [I am assuming they are Nigel Godrich, of Radiohead fame, and James Brown, who worked with the Auteurs!] who engineers George Michael's studio in Hampstead, which was near where they live in Camden [?] and they've written two or four songs. And whenever George Michael wasn't using his studio, they got to go in and do them. He even came and sang backing vocals on one tune. But all they did was four songs, y'know, because you had to wait for the guy to not be in the studio.

And then I got back and they've sort of just grinded to a halt, really. So I've got back and I was staying with them for a London for about a month before I went to visit my brother down in Brighton. And we wrote and recorded in their home studio, what could be a new Sleeper album.

We've junked all the stuff we did with George Michael, cos it all sounded like George Michael. And we went back in the studio again and re-recorded a lot of it and did all the stuff that we've written while I've been living with them.

Since then, something else has came up and we don't know when it's going to come out. It's a good record if it was ever get finished. It would be a very good record.