"Nah," he continues. "Some of it was to do with the studio not sounding right or being booked up. We recorded 'Local Boy' in one session and then started on three other tracks."

"He (Ian) knows what he likes and he knows how to get it," states Luke. "It takes a lot of trust I think as well for us as a band because you have to trust him with what you're doing and stuff and collaborate. It's been intense really but it's all good."

Well it's definitely been good in the sense that the change of studios and recording didn't reach the extremes of My Bloody Valentine. So was there any particular music the band was listening to at the time of recording, which may have influenced matters?

"We had to work man and work all day. By the time you get home you're crackered," says Luke dropping a hint of cockney tone. "The recording sessions pretty much started in the afternoon and just went on till one in the morning or whatever. Our kind of music is, I suppose influenced by older bands and there are some great bands around that you really admire and respect but these songs we want to put across in a fresh way. We don't want to recreate what bands have done in the past. We are trying to be original."

At this point the band's bassist Rob walks in and sits on the sofa opposite. Holding a laptop he's about to start on another interview. In a previous interview the band had mentioned their preference to creating the short sharp songs but do they have any that are different and perhaps go into a long jam?

"There are songs that come from a different angle," begins Luke. "Like there have been songs that have been written by the singer in his room with an acoustic guitar and there's songs written in a rehearsal room as a jam and that comes across in completely different ways. Though there's nothing that starts off and goes on." >>