"I think it was a label thing. We'd just been signed," begins Jon. "They said, 'You guys fit well together' and wished us a nice tour. I don't know if they heard anything about us but we ended up doing the dates. It was good though because it was quite a good match and we got to nick some of their fans."

The band's hard work and effort has proven fruitful. Troopers to the indie cause, like for ourselves, Club Velocity (check out their release 'Abuse Your Friends Volume 4') amongst others, they were eventually signed. Effectively twice, first for a single release on Poptones and then to Sony BMG. With success came the media attention, which duly brought their critics, good and bad. The negative criticism seemed to mainly focus on the band's passion to release very long songs. So is this just a phase?

"It's not a phase," says Jon calmly with a smile. "One thing we like about music is that there shouldn't be boundaries. If someone is going to be accusing us that the song is long and it's a twenty-minute song then it will be long. If it's short, it's how the song turns out. We don't have any preconceived ideas about how short something has got to be and that all the vocals have to come in fifteen seconds into the song so that it can get played on the radio. It's not a big concern of ours. You know wherever it goes is what it'll turn out like. So we've got some long songs. We've got some short ones as well."

"We've got the backing to be that creatively free," adds Chloe. "Otherwise the label wouldn't release our records. We've got free range, which is healthy and the long songs are a product of that. It's not like we set out to write lots of long songs."

So how is the writing for the album coming along? >>