Devon, UK - Caroline Rees interviewed Seth Lakeman who had a place called Hazel Cottage in Yelverton on the edge of Dartmoor:

'Having a house rather than a flat appealed to me. It was an Edwardian terrace and had a lot of character inside. You slept downstairs and the sitting room and kitchen were upstairs. The decor was quite 1970s, so I used Egyptian Sand paint over everything. We went to reclamation places and picked up sofas for £100. It was a bachelor pad, two guys living out on the moors, with nobody to impress.

We'd been there six months when Tim said he'd seen someone coming out of the garage. I popped down and there were all these empty bottles and chocolate-bar wrappers. It turned out a tramp had been living there for several days, rolled up in a carpet. I hadn't even noticed.'

He wrote two albums, Kitty Jay and Freedom Fields, there.

[Source: from the new paid-for Times online website

Seth Lakeman

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Date Modified: August 24, 2010, 10:55 AM