Friendly Fires: 'We've got beats for a new album' Friendly Fires have had a pretty successful, if busy, year since their second album 'Pala' reached the UK top 10 on its release in May 2011. The St Albans band have been touring almost non-stop ever since, playing various destinations on the European festival circuit this summer before they start work on writing and recording their third album this autumn. In between shows though, the band have found time to link up with up-and-coming R&B duo AlunaGeorge as part of the BACARDI Beginnings scheme, heading into the studio to remix the duo's recent single 'Your Drums, Your Love'. We interrupted sessions to speak to singer Ed Macfarlane about being bottled on stage, what it's like 'mentoring' a new band, and when the music they've been working on with legendary DJ/producer Andrew Weatherall might surface... How did you get involved in Bacardi Beginnings with AlunaGeorge? We just got an email through asking us if there were any new artists who were intriguing us or that we enjoyed and Bacardi offered to put us together in a studio on them. So we thought of AlunaGeorge straight away because we'd heard the first single when it came out on the internet. Then when we actually approached them about it, we realised Aluna is someone we'd known for ages in St Albans -- we'd been going to her house for years previously and seen her different bands beforehand, so it was nice to have a