Before there’s a chance to try and learn more our conversation is temporarily interrupted by a reversing car. Although we’re sitting directly in the way and start to get up, the driver shows his skills and drives around us. At the same time we all show our appreciation with thumbs up.

“The best songs come off the top of your head without any kind of thought,” declares Matthew returning the three of us to our last train of thoughts as we sit back down.

“At the same time you’re more inspired at different times than others,” adds Craig. “At the moment we’re in the process of writing new stuff and like I’m getting well into it but at the start of the year I think I was slower.”

The band have already gone off, comeback, rethought and reworked some old songs, with ‘Put You in Your Place’ and ‘Commercial Breakdown’ the fruits of their efforts.

“That was in the big shift,” starts Craig. “When we decided to rewrite some older stuff. It’s kind of like part of the evolving of a band and a songwriter. All the songs that we wrote when we were sixteen actually didn’t sound that good as when we were twenty-two. So we started again.”

Part of the reasoning for the formation of the band was because they couldn’t hear the music that they wanted to hear, or people weren’t making the music that they wanted to hear. Having tried to do that do they think they’ve achieved this ambition?

“I reckon so. Yeah,” grins Craig. “I think when we were growing up before we went to Leeds all the local bands just seemed to be really metal or obscure jazz funk. I don’t think there was really anyone to get that excited about. I think we have done that and it’s taken us obviously ages to develop our sound.” >>