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Ellison Johns Isolation Tapes on BBC Radio Five Live

Hello everybody, the band is back together on bass, we have O'Ein Ellis James, on lead flute,

producer Dave Masterman, and on rhythm guitar, lead guitar, lead vocals, drums, synths, production

and accounting, Johnny J.R. Robbins. I know the tour manager.

And I'm the tour manager and I'm in charge of the rider and I'm in charge of all the group

who we have no physical contact with, but we correspond with.

Yeah, yeah, it's a text-based relationship. It's all done on WhatsApp.

They queue up at the side of the stage after the shows to get access to the WhatsApp group.

We text them a photo of us giving a thumbs up and that's as far as it goes.

But the two of us are in the photo but we're so sheet-distance.

Yes. So it's two metres apart giving a thumbs up.

Yeah, photos taken, landscape. It's a big selfie. You take the selfie because of your long arms,

you're peaked to shilten-esque arms. And it just works out. It's nice. I like the idea of you behind a big synth bank, John.

Yeah, well I prefer a bit more like Garth Hudson from the band playing one of those sort of double electric pianos.

Oh yeah.

Where you've got like one hand up there and one hand down there maybe it's an organ.

Yeah, it looks pretty cool. Well the Hammond organ was like that, wasn't it? That's a twin tier organ.

And the Vox Continental Out organ could be twin tier as well.

But yeah, the isolation tapes back on the road, what back off the road?

And we want to start by saying that we're aware as this is recorded on Monday, the 9th of November,

it's awful lot going on, but we're also aware that your situation will vary depending on where you are in the UK.

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