How did this come about?
It flows forward from when I was asked to do a single for Sonic Cathedral. I was very conscious that this was my “I’m starting a solo career” moment. We then decided to do an album as I had this big catalogue of unreleased music and was able to pull out tracks that fit any kind of conceptual picture. That became The View From Halfway Down. Nat [Cramp, Sonic Cathedral founder] and I met for a cider on the day the album was released and I said I could easily do another, maybe even a double. So Flicker was the culmination of using that catalogue of songs and making them work as a record.