Sounding very passionate about her music, I wondered if Jem was one of those paranoid artist's who got up in the middle of the night to sing?

"D'ya know what? I used to but I'm so tired now I sleep through the night! I used to get up and sing into my dictaphone just in case I'd think, 'Ah, that could be a great song.' Actually no, that's bollocks right," she corrects herself. "Singing wise I haven't got up but I do often get up and write lyrics. Recently, really weird, I started having impromptu poetry, I don't know if it'll end up in a song but it's quite fascinating. I woke up and a whole poem that like, completely rhymes from beginning to end just fell out of my head and I just had to write it down. Isn't that weird?" Yes. "But these were just words, I think they were pretty good but then again I dunno, when I get lyrics first they don't usually end up on a song."

Once the album songs were complete, how did they decide on choosing the tracklisting for the album?

"We were laughing in the studio when Yoad and I finished. We were pissing about and making something for the record label and just ended up picking stuff (tracks) out of a hat," recollects Jem. "I was like, 'Wouldn't that just be amazing if it was just perfect?' but it wasn't. So we listened to it for ages and tried to work out the ending and the beginning and eventually it became this kind of journey. I remember someone told me to pretend that it's the 80's and that it's a cassette and when you get to the end of the first half you have got to get a new kick. On mine it's more like at the end of the album it gets mellower. I think that's nice because then you get back to the beginning and listen to the first track 'They' again you go 'Woah!" Then you could probably listen to the whole album again. Anybody that's been really involved from the beginning will have been involved with it. That's what happens, you become anal!"

Speaking of the opening track, 'They' features a 'Bach' sample and...>>