Jazmine O'Sullivan, Journalist

"This is definitely a party-starting album."

"There’s definitely a darker side to this latest single."

"I don’t know how I’m going to fit [the tour] in actually!"

"We basically got together because one of the guys who played in [my previous band] The Fro left, which was really brutal."

"There’s a song that Ross [Pearson, guitarist] just wrote which is about being really hopelessly bored."

As these guys are relatively new to the scene you’d be forgiven for not recognising the name, however, you’ve now been told – Big Iron are a band to watch!

"I was listening to people like Outkast, Mos Def, Common, J Dilla, The Roots – really lots of people, to try and pick up different skills."

Eve celebrates African womanhood, all the while brimming with Kidjo’s trademark warmth, positivity and funk, which never fails to instigate dancing.

Frontman George Sheppard gives us the lowdown on the band's journey

"I’ve got another project which I can’t really say much about at the moment, but things are coming together for that quite nicely and you can expect to hear more about it soon."

"For a pop band I think it’s particularly difficult because you can’t get onto commercial radio without having a hit, and you can’t have a hit without being on commercial radio."