Bromheads Jacket

You're on tour at the minute promoting your second album. How has the tour gone?

Tim: Incredibly well.

Care to elaborate?

Tim: [laughs] err, it's been fun... no one has got ill... and we've had a good time. [more laughs]

You can't ask for much more than that!

Tim: You really can't.

So how does the second album differ from the first, in terms of the songs themselves?

T: Well, I think we thought about this album a lot more than we did. With the first album, it was like we just had a bunch songs and we were really excited, and you can just hear that when you listen back to it. So it's kind of not very thought about, but it has lots of energy and it's really raw. And I think the second album, we kind of got doing our own demos and stuff like that so it was more like rather than taking the first melody that came along, it was like oh lets try a few different ones and try different parts and stuff like that. And actually being in control of doing our own recordings meant that we could just think about things a lot more.

I think the lyrics are probably the thing thats most different, and that was a real conscious thing. We... well, I, just wanted to move away from everybody else that we'd been lumped in with on the first album. So yeah, it is very different.

You touched on the writing process there, how was it different in the making of it?

T: I mean the first album was done in Ross' [producer of the first album, and ex-drummer of Pulp] studio, but it's quite a small room, so we couldn't play everything at the same time. So Dan would go in and play the drums first and then Jono would put the bass on, then I'd put the guitars and vocals on afterwards. So I mean I think now we realised frm doing that, what an unnatural way to record that is. I think because of that we knew first of all that we all wanted to play together at the same time. That was a real important thing we wanted to do on the second album. And so to do that we had to find a big enough space. So it was just a case of trying bigger and more established studios.

Bromheads Jacket's second album 'On The Brian' is available now from Pure Groove.