Steve Mason: I quite like the idea of being an entertainer

"I went into it just thinking, ‘this might be the last record I ever make but if it is then I want to make something absolutely extraordinary and leave no stone unturned in terms of being creative’, not prepared to let anything whatsoever come in to the creative process and change my way of thinking whatsoever. I had to just come up here, close that hatch and forget I had a family and forget I had a mortgage and had to put food on the table and just be creative" - Steve Mason, former member of The Beta Band, says in The New Cue interview about his latest solo album 'Brothers & Sisters'. "The idea behind the record more than anything was to make something uplifting. I wanted to make something which was positive and uplifting and gave people a beautiful experience... People are very careful about where they spend the money these days and I quite like the idea of being an entertainer. People want to be entertained and they want to go home with their hearts full rather than their eyes full of tears."