RC: Um, you’re stuff has a real droning quality that reminds me of the Velvet Underground and some of your stuff reminds me of Nick Drake, a little. I mean are those valid influences?

CS: Definitely, definitely stuff I’ve picked up in the last 7, 6 or 7 years. Probably some of the first [Jeff] Buckley recordings I heard, “Live at Sine.” That got me going. And then by the time I was headed to London I was listening. . . that was about 5 or 6. . . 5 years ago. . . I was listening to the popular music that was coming out of there, which was becoming big here, stuff like Radiohead, Bjork. And then when I got over there, that stuff had already passed there and that was kind of my first impression of it there, but then I started getting into, actually, punk music and garage and I guess that whole new wave movement of garage and stuff, The White Stripes and. . . that’s what I thought was cool, I was like, “Aw, here’s. . . here’s blues and folk music blended with garage and punk” and then I kind of went, “Oh, I see that in the Beatles music, I see that in the Stones music,” but then I also like music that was kind of droney and out there, stuff like Bjork’s “Homogenic”. . . subtle electronics, I am not opposed to that.

RC: Hell yeah. Nothing wrong with that.

CS: Yeah.

RC: Ha ha.

CS: Yeah, a little bit of everything and so, I guess that London is a melting pot of all sorts of influences.