I could see it made sense. I mean, we’ve been doing this “Yeah,” she laughs, “something like that. You know, I’ve never
since we were 19 and no one puts as much passion, as much felt that comfortable in recording studios so always preferred
sheer hard work, into what we do as we do ourselves. So to record as much as possible at home and with Hill Of
by taking control of the business side we can decide what Thieves it was just brilliant – I could put the kids to bed and
we’re spending the money on, how things are working out, know they were going to sleep listening to me sing one of the
which direction to go in. Having twins is a life changing songs we were working on.”
experience and I think it allowed us to sit back and think
about how we wanted the future to be for us and our
My last question: Cara’s brother-in-law Seth Lakeman has had
family. Setting up Charcoal in that sense is something
a very good 2008 – does this encourage her and Sam?
we’ve always wanted to do.” “It does! Seth’s doing brilliantly and it just seems like people
I note that Hill Of Thieves is credited as “recorded at home
around the world are listening more and more to acoustic
in Somerset”: does this mean Dillon is now running a real
music, folk music, so it’s exciting times for us.”
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Garth Cartwright
Cara Dillon
Hill Of Thieves
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