Benny Doyle, Journalist

“We’re going to be playing longer [sets, yes]. But I just encourage people to come down and watch me dance because I’ve got some excellent dance moves, and my new outfit is fucking amazing!"

Perhaps their finest performance in our city...

"I’m the sort of person that gets inside their head and questions things, but when I realised that I could do just what came naturally to me, that was the best direction for me to take anyway.”

"Modestep are an interesting progression that shows there’s still plenty of life left in the dubstep formula. Evolution Theory indeed..."

"I think Sleepy Tea is very much about beautiful things and trying to make beautiful sounds – trying to create warm, dreamy tones.”

“We stick fairly close to [what you hear on the record], but there is, obviously, an element of improvisation; I think when we’re going through the whole gamut of the record [on stage] the three of us all do improvise at times."

"At the core it’s still the [constant] elements of the band, they’re not going to change, but we’ve got a new thing going on and I can tell you from our side it’s so exciting, it’s fucking so cool.”

“Y’know, I’m sometimes asked what would the record have been like if [we] hadn’t taken a break, and I think the honest answer is that there couldn’t have been a record at that point."

Another epic instalment of Soundwave is done and dusted, and the hordes of heavy music lovers disperse into the night to either rest their weary necks and limbs or to continue the mayhem elsewhere.

“Tim Rogers is Tim Rogers, and he comes in and he owns it and he makes it himself. That’s what I look for in any vocalist."