Daniel Cribb, Journalist

"Any label that would sign us would know better than to mess with what we’re doing.”

"You know, that’s the weird thing, most bands take eight years off and everybody forgets about them, but for us, we just happened to draw the lucky card where we took eight years off and more and more people started to care."

Metropole sounds like a reunion between three close friends who want nothing more than to share what they’ve learnt over the past eight years. And this reunion isn’t going to disappoint anyone.

"With this new CD, I want to go back to that more subtle approach, because this new CD, there’s no jokes on it, it’s just the album itself is a joke."

Daniel Cribb will be consuming a lot of coffee and hot sauce in 2014.

It was Livin’ On A Prayer that really sealed the deal.

“Pacifica was just a hard album to make because of that added invisible pressure, which we shouldn’t worry about, but you can’t help it."

Fans of Norah Jones and The Everly Brothers will no doubt find this a good listen, and while this won’t really appeal to Green Day fans, it’s the first redeeming thing Armstrong has done in years.