"They liked the music. They just found the name too offensive," adds Crispin.

It's not going to put you off touring Asia is it?

"No. I would absolutely love to go to the Far East," begins Chris. "That's one of the great joys of this job, if you can call it a job, is that you get to travel all over the world and meet lots of lovely people."

"We're going to Japan. We're trying to get to Thailand as well. We're playing in Japan, Australia and Canada this October," informs Simon

Back in 1995 the NME dubbed 'Happy Again' as a Roses meets Radiohead stomp. How did you feel about this label?

"I don't know," starts Crispin. "When it's your first record people have to put some kind of likeness on it and have to be able to compare it."

At this point guitarist Richard walks in and has a pretty vague conversation between himself and Crispin. It appears someone has asked him to play guitar for something or other but the band are restricted due to a performance on TFI Friday. Realising this, Richard seems a little dismayed and leaves the room. Crispin begins again.

"We get compared to a few bands. We've been occasionally compared to Suede, Radiohead. People say bits of our music sound like Led Zepplin and there's obviously the Beatles influence. Frankly I prefer to be compared to those people than the likes of Bis and Northern Uproar. I like it in the old fashion way when you read reviews in the 60s. They use to say stuff like 'this one starts off with a neat little tune and then goes into a nice little chorus and then it leads to and it's got a kind of girls singing.' Nowadays you get reviews that read 'this sounds like 60,000 screaming motorcycles out of heaven' and you go and buy the record and it sounds like......" >>