"....Anyway I was out last August in Jerusalem with my mum as she was doing some talks on art therapy. I thought, never having seen this before, I'd go. It didn't turn out to be much of a holiday. On the first day we got there, two suicide bombers did their thing. The talk was supposed to end at four, but we had to stay later, at five past four the bomb went off and there were a lot of casualties. We didn't know what it was because the people that we were staying with told us, 'If you hear something which you think is a bomb, don't worry, be calm, it's just a pigeon scarer, it's all died down now'. So when it went off even though you felt it, you shuddered all through your body. My mum turned around and said to everybody, 'Don't worry, it's not a bomb' and of course everyone is using their mobiles to check if their families are all right and they're going 'No, no it's definitely a bomb'. Luckily no-one was affected in the group but if we had stepped out five minutes earlier we would have been killed. I was really shaken up by this. There happened to be a little piano in the room and so I messed about on it and I took a sample of the first opening bit and it's made around that and I tried to make it feel as I did on that day which is quite haunting."

Although the mix is liked and admittedly rushed, would there ever be a chance to redo it?

"Probably not. I'll just leave it. I've got so much stuff; I'll never get a chance to release it all. I try to do an instrumental on every B-side. I just want to get loads of material out."

Interview by Andrew Mclean 1998
Photography © Imogen Heap 2006