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Where do you start with a piece like this?

It’s always important to me that the music represents the musicians. So it’s listening to something, playing it, trying to go to the is a song that we’ve played for a long time and it’s evolved. Our current version has a keyboard loop sound at the beginning and there’s a violin over the top and a bass solo before it even goes into Exiles as we know it from the album, but that was the way that we felt we could get hold of the feeling of the original. And of course the audience is very important in this. So in order for it to be recognised as the same piece of music, you’ve got to work out what are the elements that have got to be there.

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