"We had a practice performance in Dar es Salaam before the show in Zanzibar. I had all these bits of technology to set up because I wanted it to be electronic and have loads of little synths and drum machines at work. But as we were kicking off, the kit failed, so we were just improvising, free-styling on the spot. It went down well, everyone was jamming, no-one knew we had messed up. But I did. We went backstage, Mim looks me square in the face and says: ‘Ok, listen - rethink it. We’re going to my hometown though so it has to be special.’ I pulled myself together and reworked all the tracks; the whole structure of the band in a matter of days. That was the making of me.”