"Generally, pretty damn good. I've got a bit of free time at the moment so I've been writing some new songs. It'll end in about three days", laughs Imogen. "As I'll be going on a twelve date acoustic tour, visiting the likes of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, then we'll return to do a gig at the Aquarium in London."

The Aquarium, the venue with the pool in it?

"Yeah, who knows we may go for a little swim afterwards," laughs Imogen.

As a solo artist how important is technology to Imogen's work?

"It didn't start off being very important, but it opens up so many different levels that you can go to. Even though the band is great to have, I love being in a studio and messing around and I like getting involved in the web page, designing the logo going up on it and the colour scheme. I've also done my fair bit of sampling. It's important though not to get side-tracked from the whole point of just writing a song. Sometimes I get carried away with some of the more technical things in the studio and it shows on my B-sides a lot."

'Wireless' the instrumental track Imogen's forthcoming single 'Shine' is pretty good. Did she get carried away with that?

"'Wireless' is my favourite single so far, even though it's an awful, bad mix. I had been mixing it from seven till eleven in the morning and we had to get it to the cut that day. I was really, really rushed and stressed and the strings are way too loud, but never mind. That was really interesting. I liked the idea where the original sampling came from the piano. You know the little bit? I did the song originally because this woman in America, who does plugs for films and things, commissioned us. She told us she liked one of my songs and got it onto 'Baywatch'. It turned out very good even though it was mixed very quickly and I added all these little bits from songs that I had years ago........" >>