Wonderful privilege to participate in this authentic album project with these two ‘80s legends. I collaborated with them on the English Eccentrics album, providing the keyboards and some of the arrangement, but here’s the clincher. I didn’t even know I was! Suddenly I found lots of publicity with my name on it. ‘Keyboard wiz Danny Kuperberg contributes to the album featuring Suggs and Toyah. A pleasant surprise, for sure, but baffling! Then it hit me: the young guy who was dubbed a techno-wiz was actually a student in North London and I’d given him about ten lessons. Unbeknownst to me, I’d been collaborating with one of my heroes! Such is the music biz and it’s unexpected publicity jolts.
I do have wonderful memories of both ’It’s A Mystery’ (Toyah) and ’It Must Be Love’ (Madness), who I adore anyway. One of the main reasons I so wanted to play Camden’s The Dublin Castle, solo, just voice and keyboard, was because it was where they made their name. And of course, I’d hung out a lot in Camden Market weekends as a teenager. Still, the nostalgia feels great. The creative possibilities when you hear music like this, aged 11 on your Walkman (no vision), are limitless.