Tilbrook has previously admitted revisiting the songs brought him to tears, and he says the emotion surprised him. The thing about all the Trixies songs that I recognised when I started playing them again is that all the influences come from three years between 1971 and ’74. “I certainly think that’s the case,” he says. For Tilbrook, music became the path that transformed that raw material into something extraordinary. “That’s really gratifying, to know that what you’ve done has reached out and touched someone.