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How has it been revisiting Earth 2?

How has it been revisiting ? It’s been interesting. We’re rehearsing to play a couple of live shows. We’re being as faithful as possible, although we’re doing it as a five-piece, with three guitars, a bass and then Adrienne [Davies, drummer] doing gong and cymbal stuff. It’s forced me to relearn that material, which is kind of hard because I write so differently now. It’s been kind of like: ‘What the fuck was I thinking back then?’ [laughs] I’m realising it was really a prog record. As well as the metal stuff, I was also into [King Crimson’s] . There’s a lot of ‘Instead 

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