Welcome to Music Matters Podcasts with Darrell Craig Harris, talking about all things

music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.

Welcome to Music Matters, a podcast about all things music. And today I have a special guest and also a good friend, bassist Dave Swift, who's been the bass player for later with Jules Holland on the BBC for many years and also on the radio

of BBC radio programming and how you doing Dave?

Yeah I'm doing very well thank you.

It's a wet rainy cold day here in London.

Is it always? I know, actually I've actually had a lot of great days in London.

We've had an amazing summer, but today it's it's not nice. So it's a perfect time for us to be doing this in the nice warm comfort of it.

All good. All good. Yeah. What part of London you live in? I live in it's southeast London. The actual area, it's called Charlton, and it's the closest place to where other people would have heard of is probably Greenwich. We're three minutes away from Greenwich, which is awesome.

I actually stay with my good friend Fiona Ross, jazz singer.

She lives in Greenwich.

That's a lovely little village is really cool.

Yeah, and yeah, it's very historic and yeah, it's just nice to have it just down the road because it's very took.

Grinch is very touristy. So if you live there, you have to deal with

Right, yeah. Whereas if you live just a couple of minutes away from it,

you can just go in and step out and visit it and things like that.

Yeah, that's great.

I mean, I love London and I actually, I mean, normally I've actually been recently going to London maybe once

twice a year I'm really missing it so hopefully I have missing my fish and chips and

all the all the fun tour stuff and and walking around but where are you from originally? My hometown is a place called

Wolverhamton, which is in the West Midlands. Again, people have probably heard more of

Birmingham,

...