Yeah, and then suddenly you became involved in the beautiful South.

Yeah, it was a convoluted journey.

I was temping at record labels and I joined a gospel choir because I was introduced to it by somebody at the record label.

And after working with the gospel choir for a number of years, three of us got asked to do a solo project for Dave Hemingway, who was working on an album of his own.

And that's when he took me to one side and said, I think you'd really suit the beautiful South.

Would you like me to recommend you? And, um, obviously household name, this band, the beautiful South.

And it took me all of a nanosecond to say, uh, yeah, please.

Yeah, Alison, tell us about how The South came out of The Beautiful South