Andy Sojka

That's really sweet because, you know, what – What more could I ask for as a musician? And you want to inspire other musicians.

The reason I'm a musician is because I was so inspired by the guys I was listening to.

You know, it started with Cream.

I got my first Cream album when I was eight years old.

Eric Clapton, of course.

We all know Eric Clapton.

But these were the guys.

Then Buddy Rich and then the Mahavishnu Orchestra, I discovered, and then Return to Forever.

But there was one track, which was 42, which was the B-side of Love Games.

and there was an edited version on the 7-inch, there was a full length version on the 12-inch and that instrumental song just blew me away as a kid and I just had and still have this real affection for those instrumentals and that's the way Level 42 started as you know there was an instrumental band before Andy Sojka requested Mark Singh some vocals on Love Meeting Love so yeah so you know I'm 54 now so fast forward but for years and years I've wanted to own all the instrumentals like in a vinyl package So that was the sort of deep root kind of background, if you like.

And it was in, I think it was the end of January, my son said to me, why don't you start to open a record shop, open a record store? And we go to watch the football or the soccer, as you guys call it, on a Saturday.

So this was one of those days when we're watching the soccer and he's like, you know, let's open a record shop, dad, and all this kind of thing.