[Bumpman]

The album's already recorded. The reason he's playing the songs that he's been playing is because those are the one's that'll be on the album. That's what musicians do, they become interested in playing certain songs, they release them, and tour them. He's explicitly stated on numerous occasions that 'The Blower's Daughter Part II' will definitely be on the next album. It's a really lovely idea to think that we'd all be surprised by new songs that no-one's heard before but the truth is that; if it hasn't been released, it can still be released.

The price of spending years bootlegging recordings of songs that we weren't supposed to have heard on tape, is not having any surprises in store. Does it really seem logical to you that he'd throw out some of the best songs he's ever written because a few hundred people in the trading community heard a bootleg recording from a minidisc player? No-one is that kind of artist. Not to mention that Damien very rarely writes songs, his going rate is two or three a year. He doesn't have enough songs to expend for our benefit.