Q&A

Ever-Roving Eye is, you could say, a folk record – but you were listening to The Smiths rather than folk when you were a teenager, weren’t you?

Yeah, absolutely. I don’t think it’s like this now, but back then things that were gone were gone – in the early ’80s, no-one my age was listening to folk-rock. It was just thought of as being vaguely hilarious. When I moved to the States and started playing music, people would tell me it sounded