start seeing that bigger picture it becomes more easier, I think initially the first hurdle is almost getting started and be like 'right we've got to start a new record', but now the balls rolling definitely, its exciting. How does it differ in style from your first album? I know it sounds clichd, but what we're doing is maturing to our own sound a bit more. With the last record we tried to experiment a lot with blending melodic sections with heavy sections, and I think we're going to add another kind of axis to it with dark parts and almost quite 'poppy' parts as well, we just want to pull something together that is just more honed basically. We're finding our feet more and more when we write and we're also pushing things where the set is concerned and the sounds, like we're looking into more electronic instruments as well and just pushing what we can do as a three-piece whilst keeping it all live. Playing everything live but just using drum-pads and samplers to really fill out what we do live and to what we do on the next record. When I saw you at Y not Festival you said that you'd just returned from a US tour, how did that go? It was awesome. We basically just did a few shows on the east coast, so we did a couple in New York and one in Philly. It was just a bit of an experiment really, we