The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show come about, and what paths brought you together?
Mark Lyons: We all meet in the sleepy village
Witchampton in
NE Dorset,
England. There are not many people living there anyway so to find 7 like-minded musicians was definitely fate. There are three people involved with the writing process (
Jamie Lynch,
Steve Wareham, and myself). Jamie is a neighbor and, after a drunken dare, started writing lyrics for me. I then, by pure accident, slowly met the rest and we started really concentrating on turning the demos into an actual album. That was five years ago and we’re still writing like mad. That’s what keeps it going. The fact that we’ve never stopped being creative.