write the songs that become Total Loss . My whole songwriting changed, my whole attitude and comportment changed, and I just started to feel like I was making a transition from a melancholic position to a more mournful position and optimism and hope and things that started to be recoded a in a meaningful way for me. Is the personal intensity something that's quite hard to translate to a live show, to a room full of people you've never met? TK: Actually no, I find the transition to the live show quite easy because you're there and you can really confront everyone. We start the show right now with a really slow and plaintive version of 'Suicide Dream 1' from Love Remains -- just violin and piano and voice, and it's quite intense. It sets a tone for everybody there at the show which then makes dealing with intense things make more sense. If you're just putting the album on and you're at work, or going for a run or whatever, in a car eating lunch, I don't have the same control over the effective ambience when you're listening to the record as I do live. I really like the live presentation because I can set the whole context and make sure the songs are delivered in the right package and setting. There was a video going around of you playing recently at Way Out West, in what looked like a church? TK: Yeah it was so sick. It was