Actually, we try to play as much as possible with Mrglbl because I think this is really a live band. And this is not proud at all what I?m gonna say but to achieve a high level of technicality and to perform this as naturally as possible, requires that we play over and over and the fact that we play live quite a lot makes us really comfortable with entertaining people and, at the same time, playing things which are a little tricky to perform. That really goes through the fact we are playing live?maybe sixty shows per year and, personally, I do a hundred and eighty gigs per year with all the clinics and everything. This is the best way to keep yourself at a high level of musicianship first and technicality second. MD: Live, you obviously entertain people with the humorous aspect to the show, but do you try and keep that humour in the studio as well when you?re recording so that helps the feeling of the music? CHRISTOPHE: In the first stages of the recording process, when we record down all the things, most of the time everybody is just performing in his own studio?actually, we have three stages. The first stage is everybody comes up with a lot of ideas and we put that all together and we try to re-arrange the things everyone?s brought up to make it sound as Mrglbl-ish as possible. Then the second stage is actually composing the songs from those