His nine year old son J sings with him on stage and will be featured on his next album.

Here, Blade and J talk about their music:

Blade:
"I grew up listening to all kinds of stuff from Odyssey to Shalamar, even to things like Culture Club but the prominent figures were probably Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley.

"When you're young I don't think you really care that much about what you listen to. I think you either like it or you don't. You don't get analytical about it.

"Before J was even born, I used to play him Eric B. & Rakim in the womb. And I remember one time there was a group on TV and it was one of the boy bands, really rubbish. He was about four months old crying his eyes out and I put on Eric B. & Rakim and he started smiling.

"He's nine years old now and he's got his own mind, he really likes rock music.

"He's been on stage with me when he was two months old, but the proudest moment was at the Mean Fiddler when he was eight and he crowd-surfed onto the stage.

"I know he looks up to me but it's too early to tell whether it's what he wants to do, because one minute he's into something and the next minute he's not.

"When they're young they soak everything in and whatever they see you do, they try and copy"

J, age nine
"My Dad's good. I want to sing, not pop, but like Limp Bizkit. I like writing. I've got a really good line for one of my songs. It's, 'I've come from the dark side to take your soul.' One of my album titles is going to be Road to Rage. And my second or third album I'm going to call Westlife Sucks. All these people in my class like Westlife and S Club Juniors and I don't like any pop bands.

"But everyone knows Limp Bizkit. I wouldn't mind singing with them.

"I feel a bit nervous on stage in front of hundreds of people but it's fun. When you've been singing for about a minute you start to enjoy it and you think 'Yeah this is really good,' and you feel like staying on and singing all the songs that you know off by heart.

"This boy called Kenny said 'have you heard of this band called Mark B and Blade?' And I said, 'Course, he's my dad' and he said, 'No he isn't' and I proved it. All my mates were laughing at him."