I've always loved Steeleye Span, I bought their first album "Hark the Village Wait" and went to see them when they came to Cardiff in 1970 with Ralph McTell supporting them. Maddy Prior played the spoons then although a lot of people don't know that. I had never seen this before and went home after the concert and had a go on the kitchen cutlery not really knowing how to do it but trying to remember what she did and so developed my own style of playing. Years later at Bracknell Folk Festival I happened to be one of the performers at a percussion workshop and Maddy was in the audience. Afterwards she came up to me and said where did I learn to play spoons like that, she had never seen them played so well.............the rest is history.