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I met up with Snake after his gig at the Skegness Rock & Blues Festival, January 2010.

Alan:    What were your first musical memories growing up in South Wales? 

Snake:  My first strong musical memories are how much I loved to sing, not how good I was or how much I earned two and six from a church choir wedding, but just how much I enjoyed it and how music gave me that special feeling that nothing else did. 

Alan:    Did you always want to become a musician? 

Snake:  No.  Up to my late teens it was a hobby.  I loved it, I played with a guitar and I sang, played a bit of piano, learnt James Taylor and Joni Mitchell songs, played in folk clubs and then went off to university to do an arts degree.  I didn’t discover the saxophone until I was 19 but then within 3 months of having the golden beastie m