“IT’S a miracle we’re all still together! How many other bands are still banging around, telling the same old jokes? I think we just got lucky. Elvis is a workaholic, he loves it – he’s some kind of weird genius. He’s a real oldfashioned songwriter. As a band, we just like each other – no-one rocks the boat or freaks out. We’re in touch the whole time – there’s probably not a day goes by when one of us sends the other something we’ve found on YouTube. We’re friends – that’s it!
“I’ll tell you something about EC. We started this tour in Memphis, staying in a hotel right by Beale Street. We spent four days in Memphis, soaking up all the Elvis Presley stuff and Stax stuff, because there’s all these different museums you can go to. Then we went into a studio in a funky part of town to rehearse for three days. It was a big old place, with lino on the floor. The BBC came along and recorded some old songs and some new songs for Radio 2. So we did a version of ‘Every Day I Write The Book’, but in a Memphis style. It came out really well and we ended up doing it like that on the whole tour.