How did you all get together?
There's three brothers, so obviously we've always known each other and we just moved down from Leeds to Suffolk where we met Mark, our guitarist. We moved to London and got a record deal six years ago and have been touring ever since.

Has your sound changed much since you've been together?
It's just got bigger and more confident. We've done bigger and bigger and bigger shows in England and the rest of the World. You come back into the studio after doing arenas and you've suddenly got a bigger sound.

I want to make a really big sounding rock album - I love being in a rock band, it's the greatest form of music in the world. There's nothing better in the than standing on a stage, playing rock music and watching the kids go ape in front of you - it's stunning.

What was it like winning the Kerrang Award for Best British band?
Yeah, that was cool. I was so drunk I can hardly remember it - I was sitting at the same table as Brian May, Roger Taylor and The Offsprings. When we won it, it was just three hours of interviews, drinking champagne and talking for ages! It was great to be voted best band in the country by the kids, the people that matter, that was a brilliant thing.

What was it like chatting to Brian May and Roger Taylor?
Yeah they were really cool, I'd actually been stood with Roger Taylor at Reading a few days before watching the Foo Fighters - it's kinda good hanging out with Queen! I think they were a bit bemused by it all!

What are you doing at the moment?
Loads of TV and writing songs - we've had a couple of weeks off so decided to get back into the studio. We're going to try and play two or three of those new songs on tour. We've got a couple of gigs in Germany before the English tour so we'll try the new songs out on the Germans, if they go OK we'll play them on the English tour!

What was it like hearing Nothing was in the charts?
Quite funny - I was in LA and it was really, really good - we were just really grateful.

Is that your favourite track on Hi-Fi Serious?
Actually, the new single is, Something's Going On - it's just really short and quick and a good punk-pop songs really, I love it.

How does the song-writing work?
We all come up with different ideas and I take them home and mould them into songs and melodies. Then we get together and jam it out.

What's been your best and worst moments on stage?
In Japan this year is probably my best, and worst at the same time. It was 40 degree heat, I thought I was going to collapse when I came off, it was just exhausting. The record's gone really big there, it was just amazing doing these big shows - I can't explain, it was one of the best moments of my life. It's a lot harder to break Japan than people think - there's so many bands, especially American bands that it's really hard now. But it's brilliant, I can't wait to go back. It's the same in America and Australia - lots of free holidays!

What do you do to amuse yourselves in the tour bus?
When you're on tour for two years solid, you just want to go home, but at the moment I love it, I can't wait to get out again and do this tour. We watch videos like Dumb and Dumber, and we write songs - we've got a little studio on the bus. We just keep ourselves amused - you have to do what you do to enjoy yourself or else you go insane.

Have you good memories of gigs in this part of the world?
Yeah we love playing Portsmouth and the Joiners in Southampton - some of the best shows that we did were there when we first started, not that long ago. The crowds down there always got us going and it was always the highlight of our year.