Brendan Telford, Journalist

It’s hard to accurately describe the many variations of Jonny Telafone, and it would be nice to have some time with just one. Nevertheless, Jonny Telafone highlights what a burgeoning talent he really is.

Tucker’s voice is still as jaw-dropping as ever, if not more so.

"We have never had a plan as such; it’s always instinctive, it’s just the shit we do when it’s the four of us bashing things out.”

"In some ways we weren’t ready for it, in some ways we were – all we can really do is try to control things, to make it about the music and not anything else.”

Lords of Wong have never been about subtlety, and Club Bistro is the reason why.

"I’m also doing an album with Kim Salmon which is about two-thirds of the way through. I’m a creative person; that’s why I don’t want to do The Johnnys anymore."

"I poured a lot into this, and I’m glad it came out the way it did... It’s just life, y’know? I knew these songs were a bit more fragile than previous things that I had written before."

"I hate seeing people with their iPods in or walking their dogs, almost getting run over because they can’t hear anything. It’s not how music is meant to be listened to."

“I’m clearly fluent in English, but the word doesn’t exist for the emotion I felt when we reached our target, then pretty much doubled it.”