THE GO TEAM

Kool kat surving Small Talk

The Kool Kat: Oh, hi. So, welcome to the Kool Kats interview. Nice to have you on the interview, you

know. It's been a long time coming.

Ian Parton: Yeah. Where are you from?

The Kool Kat: Nigeria. Originally, I moved to the UK three years ago.

Ian Parton: Oh, there you go. Our singer Ninja is, her folks are from Nigeria.

The Kool Kat: Oh, wow. I mean, small world, you know. By the way, you look very great. Just saying. You

look very good.

Ian Parton: I look Old.

The Kool Kat: I mean, old is the new young, you know. But lets get the flaterry out of the way. Again, thank

you for rescheduling for another interview because the last time I wasn't able to make it. I'm actually the

guy who made the magazine.

Ian Parton: You're Mr. Neighborhood Kool Kat?

The Kool Kat: Yes, officially, officially.

The Kool Kat: And so I wasn't around the last time because I was travelling to Nigeria for a family event

and I couldn't see you. But now I got your time and I'm all ears.

Ian Parton: There you go. There you go. Nice.

Question 1

What makes somebody go team material?

Ian Parton: There's been a few of them over the years. Yeah. I think I counted. I think there's been about

17 people in the go team or something. The cool ones are me, Ninja and Sam. I don't know. I mean, when I

first started, I was kind of bored with all the ENEMY bands. You have kind of blokes in tight jeans, thinking

they're really cool. So I kind of wanted to play with what bands were and what they looked like and who

was in them. And, you know, I was interested in kind of worlds colliding and having lots of different people,

you know, male, female, black, white, Japanese, whatever. You know, I've always loved bands that are,

you know, like the specials or whatever that kind of bring people together. And so, yeah, I mean, you had tobe into it. You had to be able to play lots of instruments with lots of instruments swapping. Yeah, not just

another indie band of blokes, but it was the name of the game, really, you know.

The Kool Kat: Of course. I have a question for you, to add upon what you said right now.

Question 2

Was anyone kind of like Sid vicious in your band, where they didn't do anything but look cool in

that sense?

Ian Parton: Well, I mean, The band's kind of unusual one. I kind of started it and I write the music and then

I bring it to the band. It's not like the music is a product of us all jamming in a room. So I kind of put in

months and years of work getting it ready.

The Kool Kat: 10 plus years. I did my research!

Ian Parton: It really is that long. You know, I just work at it every day. I'm there listening to some songs

and... Stuff. So, and then, and then when it comes to playing live, I kind of put out the bat signal and we all

kind of get together again. So it's not really that kind of band where, I need everyone to be on it all the time.

We kind of go dormant and I kind of scroll, work away and then we kind of kick back into action again and I

kind of build it in layers. That's the kind of stage I'm at at the minute. I'm needing drums, I just did drums

and I'm going to do bass next week and then I'll do vocals. So we kind of, it's not like we're a band where

we all kind of get together in a room and jam, even though I do love those kind of bands you know

The Kool Kat: Of course. I was going to ask you this later in the interview about how much creative control

you had as a leader of the band. Because obviously I don't know how it worked working in the studios But

Question 3

Let's say Ninja would recommend a style change or a sound into a new song. Would you be like,

“NAH”. and just move on and do something else.

Ian Parton: Well, it's just historically the way it's always been, you know, because I did Thunder, Lightning,

Strike, the first record kind of on my own and I didn't even know if I was ever going to do it live. So I guess

the Go team has always been like my brain kind of melted down into a sound, you know. So, yeah, I mean,

I'm, you know, everyone brings their own thing, particularly at the kind of execution stage, but... Songs

ultimately are kind of mine and I've kind of got the patience to sit there and listen to literally thousands of

hours of samples and you know um so yeah it's an unusual one where it's a fusion of my my songwriting

but then everyone else particularly live you know um everyone brings their own thing to it at that stage

really you know

The Kool Kat: For me, like, in the past, like, two, three weeks I've been doing, like, a whole deep dive

about your music and your history. And every time I look at your work or, like, I see, like, an article about

your band, it's always a unique band. It sounds different. Your sound is different and cool. But I feel like

what I'm getting at is more so that... It's not that it's so strange that I can't believe it! its more so that like im

happy that it's feasible and it's accomplished because I feel like the way that I read your bio and how youcame up was that it was either I'm in it or I'm not because at the same time you were doing film before you

did the the GO team, but when you did film,

Question 4

Was it more so that your ideas in your head leaded towards a hobby and less of something you

pursued or was it something you always wanted to do eventually?

Ian Parton: I never really thought of it, I thought I'd make it or anything like that. I never thought I would be

spending 20 years doing it. It was something I was driven to do. I would do it every day. And I always had

this idea and frustration that people weren't smashing together more things. I always thought there was lots

of unrealized thing I still do. I still think you've only just scratched the surface what genre colliding can do,

you know. I was driven by, I'm obsessed with it still. Every day I'm still driven by this idea of the perfect

soul, you know. So it's never a job for me. It's never a chore. I'd be doing it if I wasn't paid or if I was. It's

this kind of life mission of, trying to satisfy all these things at the same time you know can it be weird a

classic pop song experimental uh sort of technicolor can it clash genres together have hooks in it you know

I'm trying to the lyrics be good because it says something you know you're trying to satisfy literally like 10

things at the same time in this kind of perfect song so that's kind of I think I've always been obsessed with

the idea of the song as this kind of perfect, potentially perfect thing, you know, that you kind of leave in the

world, you know, and that's a never ending quest, you know?

The Kool Kat: Yeah, it is. It's funny because like, again, fot the past two weeks I've been homeworking you

guys. So I've been really, I'm really a go team fan right now at this point. No, for real. And like, it's funny

because I mean that quest for like, you know, upgrading the sound and trying to see where it can go with

your vision. I mean, bro, your music is fucking amazing. Like, you know, like in terms of like bending

sounds and making it work, I think you've done that tenfold with your albums.

Question 5

But in terms of where you want to take the sound now, what does that look like? What sounds do

you wanna add to make it more, you know, more present than what came before?

Ian Parton: Yeah. Just this idea of choppiness, of jumping almost like you're flipping the channels on a

radio or something. I don't think we've really nailed that. So, I mean, I literally spent weeks arranging all my

samples into the same chords recently. So I could try and do that where I would jump between, you know,

say an electro song and then go to a 60s site song and, you know, is there a way that they can coexist, you

know? So, yeah, I mean... The good thing about the go team is that you could go in so many different

directions. You know, you could become like a marching brass band or you could become much more

noisy like a guitar band or you could go mellow, you know, and kind of pick up on the sort of everyone's VIP

kind of style or whatever. You know, so there's kind of a lot, even though people often say that all of our

records sound the same, I still think there's a...

The Kool Kat: I don't think so. I don't think so!

Ian Parton: I don't. I think there's a kind of a breadthess in the sound, I think, but it still has this kind of go-

to-me-ness that flows through it, you know?The Kool Kat: I mean, after hearing, like, a three of your albums, like, I mean, your style is in all your

albums, but Id say how the style is used and what you use to achieve that sound is very different in each

album you make. 'Cause in the first EPs you made with "Get It Together", when it was just like a demo, not

an actual song, obviously you could hear like differences between the demo and the actual song, but when

the actual album came, it's a whole different experience 'cause it's more defined, it's more, you know, put

together and same thing with the other EPs. And I'm really sorry about the names, um your 2018 album uh

on my days i'm so sorry for my lack of knowledge

Ian Parton: um was it semicircle or

The Kool Kat: thank you yeah mayday alone it makes that album a 10 out of 10 like that song alone is

beautiful

Ian Parton: Oh, what sorry

The Kool Kat: oh mayday

Ian Parton: yeah

The Kool Kat: yeah yeah yeah That song couldn't be made in 04, in my opinion. I don't think it could be but

like it won't be as nice as you did in 2018, you know?

Ian Parton: Yeah, I think being timeless is quite a good goal, really. I mean, it could have been done in the

60s or or now. Maybe I don't know, you know, the kind of the yeah. That's the kind of classic song kind of

goal, you know, is that it's this standalone kind of thing.

The Kool Kat: Yeah. - Exactly. But this is, sorry, I'm laughing so much. The question I have for you next

that I wrote down was,

Question 6

In terms of your childlike curiosity, do you feel like that will ever disappear? And do you feel like

being a father has changed your perspective in terms of music and the way you see obstacles in

life now in terms of creating?

Ian Parton: Well, I mean, I'm 20 years in or more, 25, and I'm still obsessed with it. You know, I've never

tired of it. And there's a particular kind of... Go-teemey way way of seeing the world for me. And it's a kind

of a bit utopian really, you know, I am, it's kind of like all my favourite things kind of at the same time. And in

reality, say Roxanne Shante couldn't jam with Kevin Shields from I Would Do Valentine or, you know, I'm

imagining these things which in reality couldn't happen, but in kind of go team world, they can, you know.

And I like that. I like the idea of a band kind of having a universe around it and a kind of a worldview, you

know. And it's quite particular. It's quite utopian, you know, I'm it's not like my life is this way its kind of how

I want things to be, you know. And I don't think having kids change that, really. I mean, I'm into what I'm

into and I've always been into it. You know, I'm into kind of cuteness and things like Charlie Brown or, you

know, girl groups or the Jackson Five. I'm into that and I'll always be into that really. I'm interested in kind of

noise and how the kind of Sonic Youth and Atari stuff and how those worlds can collide, you know, niceand nasty at the same time, you know. I don't think these obsessions will ever go away really. I mean, I've

been into it since I was like buddy 16 or something, you know.

The Kool Kat: Oh Hell yeah. Oh yeah. Sorry. That kind of gives me hope for my whole life and my future.

Cause I like whimsical, stuff like you? So just to keep that going for real, cause life is a bit too depressing

not to be happy, you know?

Ian Parton: Yeah, I mean, it's a tricky one because you, there's two schools of thought, isn't there?

Particularly with what the shit that's going down at the minute. It's like, if you do something, you know, too

nice, everyone sort of accuses you of you kind of burying your head in the sand and being naive and, you

know, out of touch with reality. Or you could say, we need some release, you know, which one is it, you

know?

The Kool Kat: Can't it be both, you know?

Ian Parton: Yeah, yeah. I think you can be switched on. You can know exactly what's happening in the

news, but then go, fuck it, let's play, you know. Because we can't let these motherfuckers define our age,

The Kool Kat: You tell em

Ian Parton: you know what I mean? It's like Trump occupies too much of our fucking headspace. We need

to switch that motherfucker off, you know.

The Kool Kat: Yep, on my screen, in my life, in my politics. It's about time he leaves, if you know. Mm-

hmm. But yeah, I know what you're saying. I mean, for me, I just... I'm 22 years old. I just do my own thing.

I try not to get too wrapped up in the world because if you do... There's a quote I learned a while ago. It

was, "I know myself more, I know the world less." So that's how I live my life now, you know, just one day at

a time.

The Kool Kat: But I was gonna ask you this question actually. It's about your music and in terms of like

merchandising.

Question 7

When your music is featured in the soundtrack or in a video game soundtrack, Do you like that or is

it more so free promo for you?

Ian Parton: I mean, we're kind of known as the Little Big Planet band. I don't know if you came to us

through that.

The Kool Kat:: oh no, I saw, I mean,. 'I actually, like music a lot. So I actually found you guys through

Spotify, but I did some research on you and you were on Little Big Planet. So it was kind of, makes sense.

Ian Parton: I didn't really... I've never played LittleBigPlanet. I'm not a gamer.

Ian Parton: You wouldn't believe, like, when we last toured America, like, half the... kids, All the young

people, you know, sort of 20s and under, they were literally all there from LittleBigPlanet. So we owe it alot, you know. People have this kind of nostalgic thing for us and people were asking us to sign their copies

of their LittleBigPlanet game and stuff. Because I've... You know, it's the furthest thing from my mind, you

know, but, you know, however people find you, you can't knock it, you know.

The Kool Kat: Fair enough.

Ian Parton: Yeah, I'm not a gamer, but it's, we owe it a lot, really, you know, and we've been on a few

video games and stuff. And I've never seen any of them. But, you know, I think people feel more attached

to video games, it seems. It seems to have a sort of personal meaning to them, you know, because of how

old they were when they did it or the amount of hours they did it. It's kind of, you have a sort of personal

connection, it seems, you know. So there seems to be a sort of extra level of fandom with those sort of

people. Yeah, there seem to be fans... Yeah. And then they kind of go off and explore the rest of our music,

it seems. So, you know, it's cool. It's cool.

The Kool Kat: Yeah, yeah. I kind of agree with that. I mean, I'm not much of a gamer myself. I just got into

gaming like two months ago. But I played a little big planet when I was a kid but I played games with music

off. I played, actual songs over the gameplay. So if I saw your song there, I didn't listen to it unfortunately, I

mean, I get that. You know,

The Kool Kat: I was going to ask you about your tours and your live performances and stuff, about Japan

in particular, because whenever I watch your interviews or watch an article you read, sorry, you went in,

Question 7

Japan always came up as a place that you wanted to be every single time. How come?

Ian Parton: I mean, we haven't played there for a while, but we've probably played there like... Eight, nine,

ten times, I don't know. And I always say it's like the prize, you know, it's almost like you're killing time until

you get to Japan. I mean, it's just, I don't know, just the people, just the fans, yeah, they're just different,

you know. I mean, the whole place is really interesting anyway, you know, it's like culture shock, you know.

Ian Parton: Have you ever been there?

The Kool Kat: No, but I'm planning to go to Osaka this summer with my friend.

Ian Parton: Okay, there you go. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the gigs are just really nice. You know, there was

always signings and you always get presents and then you kind of go out. The gigs are always normally

quite early, like seven in the evening and then you go out afterwards and get food with the promoters and I

don't know, it's just dreamy.

Question 10

Are the fans of Japan more instense on the fans in America or in Europe?

Ian Parton: Just kind of, just really cute. Yeah. Focused and polite and obsessive. Yeah. Yeah. Just like

Japanese people, really, you know? Yeah. It would surprise you. Yeah.

The Kool Kat: You know, I'm going to ask you about this a while ago, but you touched on it before, but I

just want to elaborate a bit more. You said that the GO team is more so a universe than just like a music

band, you know, that you reflect what you like through your band.

Question 10

In terms of when you first made your first album and now, how do those worlds contrast from

before and now?

Ian Parton: Um... I mean, it's still vaguely there. I mean, there's certain things I'll always be into, things like

Super 8 and Colours and that sort of Technicolour thing, kind of the feel of cities and New York and those

particular feelings. You know, in a way, like New York has kind of been... It kind of encapsulates everything

I'm into from Velvet Underground to Sesame Street or Roxanne Shantae or Midnight Cowboy or whatever.

So it's kind of almost like everything I'm into in one place over different decades, you know. I think I'm kind

of more... It's not so haphazard, the songwriting now. I think the song's a bit more complicated and a bit

more hooky, a bit more sort of songy because a bit more emphasis on the singing. I mean, the Thunder,

Lightning, Strike didn't have much actual singing on it. It was lots of sort of found things, you know, from

films and stuff like that. So I'm interested in singing and hooks a lot more and I think I can... But... My

process is the same. I hoard literally thousands of ideas. You should see my phone. It's got like 3,000 ideas

in there. And I work them up, put them in my pile, listen back. Most of it's shit. I literally get rid of 99.9% of

everything I do. I get rid of everything, pretty much. I never use any of it. And there's just one or two little

things.

The Kool Kat: I know it's for the greater good for the song, but as a fan, it sucks to hear that, man.

Ian Parton: Well, how much do you get rid of? Well, you can assume that it's not very good if I get rid of it.

I'm trying to keep... Just the good shit and songwriting is fucking hard man I mean mediocrity is kind of

seems to be the default state you know so I um yeah any way I can really do it if you gave me a guitar I

couldn't really play a song you know I I I'm not particularly a good position, but I've got the patience to put

the hours in and spot when something's kick-ass, you know, when it jumps out, and I kind of remember it

and put it, and I build out from there. I try and get, like, sort of six sort of ideas within one song, you know,

so it's not just what I'm not, you know, I'm trying to, like, say, like, Mayday is a product of, um, like sort of

six different ideas that I've kind of tested next to each other and kind of emerged as a song, you know, they

existed separately for quite a while.

The Kool Kat:Come on!

Ian Parton: That bit was on its own for ages and then I go, oh, cool, there you go. I mean, the song I'm

working on at the minute for the new album has over 50 samples in it.

The Kool Kat: Whoa. Wait, what song or what album?

Ian Parton: One song.The Kool Kat: Whoa, whoa. It sounds crazy that, it's not crazy, but when you, finish the song, it would

sound like, you know, it would have, like have harmony to it. So I understand, but damn, I love songs.

There's so many songs in the song.- change paragraph

Ian Parton:I love the idea that they're all from different decades and different genres and stuff, but

somehow they, Yeah, that's where the art, because sampling has a bit of a bad name, really. You know, it's

like when people just shove a beat on something and rip, nick’s something else's song and put a rap on it

and put a song. I don't really dig that. I'm more into the art of it, you know, and how random things can

coexist somehow, you know.

The Kool Kat: I do have a question, though, in terms of your new album and like you making music,

because I read something about that

Question 11

The way you approach singing and music is less than someone who's good at singing comes to a

mic and sings well. It's more so knowing a friend that can sing really well that happens to be on

track. So are you using that same mentality to your new music, or do you want to go through more

professional singing routes?

Ian Parton: I mean, there's always, I mean, I'm trying to get that sweet spot between grooviness and

sloppiness. You know, I love, I love both things. But I don't like things that are too session, too good,

because they're a bit stinky and a bit session player-y, you know, so I'm trying to, I like distortion and I like

messiness, but I like grooviness as well. And you always have to make it groovy. You know, you can't.

The Kool Kat: You gotta groove.

Ian Parton: Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, it goes without saying. So, yeah, I love both things, basically. I

love... I love shredding. You know, I love people that can fucking drum brilliantly, but I love shit drummers

as well. You know, I've got a song on a new album called learning to drum, which is, which is literally about

someone learning to drum and it starts off, starts off and they're really shit. Like I got my partner to be the

drummer and she can't play. So I was kind of, you know, really shit feels and stuff. And then I'm going to

come to almost like a dream sequence where I'm, where I'm going to use a fucking amazing drummer and

they're going to be shredding and then I'm going to kind of cut between the two and it's about the journey of

becoming better at stuff you know the lyrics are going to be about learning and trying and stuff like that so

yeah I like bad things I like sloppiness and I like you know I love singers that Not exactly can't sing. I'm

interested in that sort of... It's about the feel, really, rather than... Because if you ask someone who can

really sing well, they're going to... You know, they're going to start wanking off, you know, and be too good,

basically. It's a real balancing act. I don't want people who are shit, but... Lots of my favourite songs from...

You know the 60s and 70s are these kind of soul singers who came in and just sang one song and then

carried on with the rest of their life you know they're kind of amateurs really you know I like people that

have never been in the studio before I've done that quite a lot of times where you know,

Ian Parton: I’ll ask teacher in Detroit, you know, are there any kids in your choir? And they'll come in to the

studio for the first time and they're like, wow, you know, and I love that, that moment of capturing that, you

know, there's something you can't really put your finger on about that.The Kool Kat: It's priceless, really.

Ian Parton: There's a song called Chainlink Fence on Semi Circle, you know, that's sung by a girl who'd

never been in the studio before, you know. She was like 15, something like that, maybe. Wow.

The Kool Kat: Well, I was going to ask you two things, actually. Sorry, one second. Sorry, my chest.

Question 12

So first things first. With the 50 sounds that you're pulling from to make one song, what decade are

those sounds mainly from or is it across all decades?

Ian Parton: you know it's um it's all over the place yeah really i mean it's whatever worked whatever

worked um i'm just looking at it here my list of samples i mean there's lots of sort of soundtracks bollywood

um 60s psych um Yeah, I mean, lots of it's older. I don't, you know, there's a kind of an unwritten rule with

sampling that you kind of can't be too modern. It seems to be 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s kind of. You don't really

want to go too modern. But yeah, I mean, I don't really know where lots of it's from. I just kind of just try it

and see what happens, you know.

The Kool Kat: So I have a question now. I mean, I know you write your ideas down on your phone and

your different devices,

Question 13

but what do you store your records and samples that you use to make music? Is that in a separate

place entirely or is that in your main home?

Ian Parton: Well, I just have a kind of a master document with all of my...

The Kool Kat: Oh, wow.

Ian Parton: All of the... You know say E chord E major chords all of my samples line you know I've

separated them into different BPMs as well

The Kool Kat: Sick!

Ian Parton:um that was how I you know it's kind of quite it's kind of a resource that I can kind of keep

forever really you know um and if I need something in in that chord I will look and try and find something

but um Yeah, I mean, it's just, you kind of have to be organised, really. It's a bit boring, but...

The Kool Kat: No, it's not boring at all. I'm so invested in what you're saying. It's not boring. I'm so invested

right now. Like, you can't really tell because I'm on through a screen, but, like, I'm happy to talk to you right

now.

Question 14

One thing as well, with Ninja and you guys meeting, what made you bring her onto the team

initially? Was it her voice? Was it her presence? What made you think that she was good team

material?

Ian Parton: Well, I mean... I did Thunder, Lightning, Strike and then we were offered to play this festival in

Sweden, like to headline a festival and I didn't have a band. So I literally had weeks to get it together. I put

a message on some message board somewhere and she replied saying, "Female rapper found!"

Exclamation mark, exclamation mark. Then I met her in King's Cross outside the Skylar Cinema, I think it

was, literally for three minutes because she had to go off somewhere. Next time I see her, we're in the

studio and sorry, in the practice room getting ready for this thing. So it wasn't like I had loads of people to...

Choose from it was like okay do you want to do it okay we're in we're going to Sweden you know so it was

it was crammed it was like pretty and we were a bit shit to start with but she kind of grew into the role I

mean she's kind of one of the greats of life front women I think in in the moment she gives it everything you

know she will never phone it in she'll absolutely you should see her when she comes off I mean she's an

absolute wreck you know but people don't really do that much you know they just sort of stand there and

play but have you ever seen you've never seen us live have you?

The Kool Kat: No I have not I wish I could Do you have a show this year in the UK?

Ian Parton: Not this year maybe next year

The Kool Kat: I'm there!

Ian Parton: You in London?

The Kool Kat: Yeah, I live in, I can't tell you where I live, but like I live around ##, ###

The Kool Kat: Right, yeah. And I moved here a while ago. The meeting actually ends in seven minutes,

but just really quickly, just to ask you one more question. If you don't mind, you can say no.

The Kool Kat: So I read that you have a bit, your hearing one ear is not that good. Over the past few

years. And like,

Question 15

how has that, I guess, affected you making music and your love of music as well? Has it impaired

you any kind of way EMOTINALLY to the art form

Ian Parton: When it happened, it was quite dramatic. It literally came out of the blue. I woke up and all my

hearing had changed in my ear here. It kind of came back for a minute and then it went all Dalek-y. So

listening to music sounded like two songs playing at the same time out of tune. You can't explain it really.

It's not completely wrong. And that's come back... In my, so it went away. So I've lost hearing in this side.

So I'm only in mono now. That was quite traumatic. But I was kind of in the middle of Get Up Secrets Part

One. - Okay. - Yeah, I think it was part one. Around the sort of lockdown kind of era as well.Ian Parton: So that took me out of action for a while. There was a minute where I thought I can't carry on

because it sounded so horrible. But then, I mean, I can hear in mono now, I can sort of pan things around

and guess what stereo sounds like. So it's not, it hasn't really affected much, to be honest. I kind of made

sure it didn't. But then over the years, My good ear, this side, has kind of gone robotic and daleky as well.

It's happened four times now where listening to music is just unbearable. And then I've taken these steroids

and it's kind of gone away.

Ian Parton: So I don't know if that's going to come back again for good one day. So I'm kind of... I mean,

when it happened last, I thought that was it. I thought game over. I was in... Went to gigs and it was just

like, you know, I can't even explain it. Every time it happens, you think, is this the end?

The Kool Kat: AND YOU COME BACK EVERYTIME

Ian Parton: You know, I'm back in every time. I know. Yeah. So you've got to keep on there. But yeah, but

yeah, you kind of think, you know, of all the people it could happen to, all I do is listen to stuff and I'm, why

can't it happen to that person there, you know? But, you know, it doesn't really affect anything at the

minute. If it comes back again and it stays, then it could be game over, but that's kind of looming and it

could happen tomorrow or not at all, you know, so I don't really know, but yeah.

The Kool Kat: You know, I saw that an interview you did Around like four years ago, I'm not too sure. And

like when I was interviewed and you said that and the guy, the guy that was talking to you, he was cool. But

like, what I would have said is that if I'm being honest with you, I'm very curious to hear what else, what

music you make with your hearing not the best. I can imagine it is very traumatic and it's because of a lot of

anxiety and stress. But I feel like, again, I know you personally that well, but I feel like you're so talented

that even if you were blind and deaf, you make some really good music just saying - look at his later

Ian Parton: Well, I was carrying, I mean, I did kind of have this kind of motivational speech with myself,

you know, you kind of got to carry on whatever.

The Kool Kat: Yeah.

Ian Parton: But it was, I mean, literally you'd be... You know, every, every note would have a kind of a

ghost note underneath it, which was the wrong way. It was like, Oh my God. So yeah, we'll see. We'll see.

The Kool Kat: I pray for you again. Thank you for the comment on the interview. You're really appreciated.

Ian Parton:Is it going to be in written form or ?

The Kool Kat: It a bit of both actually.

The Kool Kat: So written form on the websites. I'm trying to do a thing where I'm, i i turn interviews into

like animated shorts on instagram oh yeah yeah i'll post like clips of it on instagram as well um but we are

going to make a magazine so we'll i'll send you the actual magazine with the cover and everything we are

working on your cover actually for the magazine that's will be done in two or three weeks so i'll i'll let you

know

Ian Parton: yeah man cool all right good luck with everything yeah good questions

The Kool Kat: thank you so much And again, I look forward to hearing your new music and the song with

50 samples. That sounds really cool as well.

Ian Parton: I know. Good luck clearing that, eh? All right, nice one. You too.

The Kool Kat: Have a good day as well.