Michael Smith, Journalist

"It’s almost like a culmination of everything we’ve worked on previously."

"I think the thing students are looking for nowadays is people to collaborate with and courses that weed out the unnecessary information so they can get a hold of the information immediately relevant to them."

"We were all just kind of zombies, hadn’t slept."

"It’s very hard to put a label on what the music is. I like rhythm and blues because it covers a multitude of sins"

"We’ve been lucky that we’ve never been forced to rein anything in."

"We all had office jobs and I don’t know what got into us but we quit those jobs and decided to tour."

"It’s not really so much a conscious thing, ‘trying’ to write a song that sounds ‘60s – I’ve learnt that way."

"It really has lifted the album."

"I’ve realised more and more that my theory that indie rock is nothing more than glorified disco, and that there should have been punk rock, or at least the aesthetic, the ideal, that should have kicked in a long time ago."

"That backbeat gypsy sort of vibe in some of our music, we played so many great gigs in the south of France where those sorts of songs really got people moving – people really felt that sort of stuff."

"I like the songwriting process and I like the rapping process too, and I’m always trying to make a mix of both."