BT — The Road to Lostwithiel. A trip to remember

Brian Tranceau: “This was a song I wrote after hanging out with my friend Kirsty Hawkshaw (ex-Opus III) for the album ESCM. We had gone to a pub in Cornwall where she and her husband, Mark, lived. Kirsty and I spent the whole night talking about Tibean Book of the Dead and generally pissing off everybody in the room. It was getting late, and our friends were like, Screw you guys, we’re going home, and then they took off—we kind of cleared the floor, so to speak. They took a cab back and we sat there talking until two in the mornng. When we realized what time it was, we thought, Holy crap, we’re not going to be able to get a cab.

Kirsty Hawkshaw

It was about 11 miles to Kirsty’s place—down this really narrow road that is lined with nettled, so we walked the whole way down this road, and she was telling me these stories about things like the beasts of bodenic, which are these panthers that supposedly escaped into the English countryside, while generally scaring he shit out of me. We just made a really intense connection that night and sparked a great friendship. I wrote the song remembering that night, because the place we were in was called Lostwithiel and we walked all the way back to Cornwall.” When Brian was flirting with the intelligent drum‘n’bass.