You did? You signed it for me? Thank

you.

Yeah, so I did some events with that, which was brilliant, beautiful.

So by the time that was done, I'd had a new kind of...

And the book took a couple of years to do.

I'd spent a lot of time with these guitars.

I'd sort of renewed my relationship with these guitars, which, by the way, have given me 45 years of loyal service already.

War Child.

Is it something about you, like you yourself as a person, or about your playing or a bit of both that allows you to fit in with so many different kinds of people?

Well, I guess so, but I, I think musicians are very, uh, welcoming and inclusive types of people.

It might be a bit cheesy, but I, I have a certain kind of pride in that, not my personal kind of about myself, but my, you know, brothers and sisters of music, you know.

They-- Because let's put it this way.

I've been around...

I don't know whether you've ever been in a room with several actors or in a taxi with several comedians, but often there's a bit of a competitive vibe with...

I know it's a generalization, right? I've, I know a bunch of great actors, and I know a bunch of some great comedians, right? But I, I've noticed that musicians are very...

Yeah

How then do you reconcile the larger piece of the jigsaw, which is that people in bricks and mortar businesses are paying sometimes exorbitant rates and costs to trade, while casual traders can rock up with their hawker's license or whatever and apply their trade and move on again?

Yeah, look, that is something, again, I think that needs to be earned out.

But let's also remember, you know, if it rains, these businesses don't thrive.

Like, I think this complements businesses.

This brings people into the city.

Respectfully, there is Little Vietnam and there is an Egyptian Cairo to Cork.

Like, that's a very unique offering.

But there is a vibrancy there that has to be recognised.