As you travel the world, you'd be like...I'm going to a festival in Europe, I need to pack my wellies and s***! You appreciate different food and different cultures. You take in the art, that you may necessarily have done. That makes it easier, because you're excited in a whole different way.

-Going back to the record, how does it compare to your earlier work?
As cheesy as it sounds, I would hope to say it's mature. I hope it's much more progressive. After playing together for so long, we're all self-taught in what we do. We just want to get better at it, in way that's not contrived or pretentious.

If anything, we realise that we're really good at taking our influences and making them ours now. It's taking all those elements and just morphing them. I think we're getting better at that.

-Where do you draw on for those influences?
It's just life. The things you do, see, everything. It's our outlet. Whatever you're absorbing gets filtered through. We've never been about "we've got to make a song like this", we're just trying to jam.

-What do you have planned for the rest of the year?
We have only a handful of shows left. I think we have one more festival in Paris, and then we're off to Helsinki, Estonia and then Russia St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Moscow will be our last show. Then, we'll go home for a week or two and reconvene at the beginning of October and start writing up until Christmas.

-Are there any ideas yet?
No ideas. I think maybe just sonically people know where you want to go. You can't really have an idea. That's too contrived in a way.

-What shout-out would you give to your fans?
We're glad to be here and hope to be back sooner than later. We're looking forward to touring Europe and everywhere else. Thank you!

Female First - Alistair McGeorge

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