Norman Lamont interviewed in August 2005 by Jim Igoe, founder of Edinburgh's open mic night Out of the Bedroom

The new CD is great. It sounds, particularly on IOU, like you've been listening to African music. What's influenced your new sound?
I had a song, IOU, which I liked but which sounded a bit ploddy when strummed on guitar.I was experimenting with different sounds, and found that if you stick a capo on an electric guitar with a chorus effect and pick very high up, it sounds a little like Graceland! That gave me the cue to listen to that kind of music for rhythm ideas. So that created that track, and just for a bit of consistency I put a similar sounding guitar on the next track and the last one. There's a nice contrast between that track and the more beatbox sound of 'At the Harbour'.

I was interested to see it's credited to Norman Lamont, not Norman Lamont and the Innocents. Have you let go of your innocence?
I see the recordings and the band as being quite separate. Partly it's the difficulty of rec