Jem has become so accustomed with her new life in L.A. that she's even passed her US driving test - could we see the tour bus being driven by her?

"Ha! I'm used to sleeping in the back. The band have said that if we come over here that I'd be driving but I'd be crap at it coz I have not driven for so long over here."

Being in the States so long, had she picked up any 'Americanisms' along the way?

"I tell you what, I say trunk, I say restroom, I say trash. I say gas instead of petrol and things like 'that sucks.' And I use the word 'like' too much.” Count them later, she's not lying.

Jemma Griffith started her pursuit of fame at a tender age when she tried her hand at music. So what was her setup was like back then before the days of record company advances and top industry producers?

"My studio's hardly changed!" she giggles. "The setup I have is very small. The keyboard that I had for a long time since I was 13 was a K1. I also had a Roland Porta and that’s what I recorded on. Oh and I had some dodgy drum machine which I still have but don't use anymore. I think I was caught rapping once but I don't think I'll be doing that again." I suggest that those tapes maybe worth a small fortune some day maybe. She disagrees quickly. "I mean it's just good, even now, years on that you can still have a small studio. I recorded my album on what I have now. You can fit it into a rucksack."

So did Jem understand the music making process at this early point in her career?

"I think it came naturally. I never studied it," she recollects. "It was just from listening to pop music, that's how I understand it. The songs just come...">>