saved up some pennies and we had some friends out there to help us out and get a couple of gigs, so we literally just went to get the lay of the land with it. It went really really well, the response was great, and I think we've always known that we could potentially do quite well in America and our niche over there is quite receptive to our style of music. We got out everything we could from that trip and it was really exciting, so fingers crossed we'll get to go back next year, maybe the west coast this time round. How did the American audience compare to British ones? They were great. I'd say they were a bit more receptive, I think Americans (without any offence to U.K. audiences because we love them) are just a little more excitable about a new thing and a little less timid at hearing new music. So the first show we played every band got a great reception and the whole crowd was so up for it, and that's lovely to play to because you completely feed off that when your playing live. I was just wondering what the song writing process was like with an instrumental band, is it more challenging as you don't really have the standard structure of Verse/Chorus/Verse/Chorus? To get a song going you have to get together a lot of different ideas and its kind of piecing it together, because you know its not going to