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I’m in my flat at the moment, just sorting out bits and bobs. My parents have just arrived for the show tonight.

 

Yeah, the Manchester crowd are always great. The thing is with the Manchester crowd, is that they really get into the music and they have always supported local bands. I mean the cities full with musical heritage.

 

We’re playing at the GMex, which is where Labour hold their conferences. We’ve played there before, supporting Doves and Super Furry Animals which was quite special for us. I mean Doves first album is quite important to us as a band, that album made me want to be in a band.

 

We were at a radio station and we got to meet Mark Joyce (who is the drummer from The Smiths)Yeah, and The Smiths are one of our favourite bands of all time. They're just incredible and we’ve all got such a fondness for them. So, to be sat in a radio studio, drinking a glass of wine with Mark was a bit of a crazy experience to be honest.

 

Friendly Fires are one of the only bands in music at the moment that we can directly compare ourselves to because they’ve got the right blend of dance music and indie music and we try to do the same sort of thing. We play drums, guitar, bass on stage and they do the same. They come from a slightly different angle but the two of us together... I hope we will play some more stuff together in 2010 because they are such a great band to play with, they have such a vibrancy on stage and the two of us together go hand in hand.

 

I saw them quite early on and he didn’t dance quite as much, but maybe I`ll develop some kind of random hip thrusting gestures in the future.

 

 

We like to describe our music as electronic music with soul.

 

Thanks. Not at all, I think Doubt was the natural progression for the next single and we know what the next single after that is probably going to be. The album is recorded, its out of our hands now, its got a release date. So, there’s no way the amount of hype will affect us because its all done now, its all set in motion. People can take it or leave it, we hope people will take it but... I think if we got to this stage and the album wasn’t finished we’d be worried about what’s on there, but there’s nothing we can change, and there’s nothing we’d want to change even.

 

There’s some more song based tracks like Doubt, more single like tracks, there’s more kind of down beat emotional tracks and then there’s really hard hitting short tracks. What we tried to do was make it flow from start to finish, so everything sort of revolves around the centre track which is called Acolyte, everything has its place around that track. So, Doubt is just one track that has its place in relation to Acolyte and what we’ve achieved is a flow from start to finish. So it kind of feels like you’ve been on a journey. Its a bit more different to a lot of albums which focus on fillers and singles. We don’t feel there’s any fillers on our albums, just songs that work together.

 

2010, we have a UK tour to promote the album, playing some venues we have played before and some we haven’t. February, we go to Europe, places likes Milan, Germany, Spain and then after that, were just looking forward to the festival season really. We're playing quite early slots this year at Reading and Leeds, the first band on sort of thing. I’m desperate to go to Glastonbury, that means a lot to me, that place, I can’t wait to play there and see a bit more of the country.

 

I’ve been there 5 times before, when I was a lot younger, I used to go there every summer. In fact, I actually skipped an exam before to go there which left me with a really bad mark.

 

Yeah, it was, yeah.

 

It was a geography exam.

 

Apart from map reading, maybe we’d get to place a lot quicker if I was a better map reading!

 

Yeah, it would be incredible, it would be great to play there because I’ve even got the Glastonbury book, from the first gig to the last gig, so I know a lot about the history so it would be great to be a part of that.

 

U2 have come out in the past and said they would never play festivals like Glastonbury so they're one of the bands of my generation that you’ve always wanted to see at a big festival but you’ve never been able to catch them. It would be great to catch U2 because they're such a big band, I don’t quite agree with everything that they do but they’ve got some great tunes in there and I’m sure they would put in a good show. I mean their tour this year, they brought in such a big production for it, it cost them millions, so I’m sure they’d put in a great show at Glastonbury.

 

The funny thing is about that battle is that I think its happened a few years in a row now. I think they always get their timing wrong! They peak too early and then the X Factor person comes in a bit later and steals the show. I don’t really care about it because Christmas number one’s were ruined when Mr Blobby was number one in the 90s. I think they have a monopoly on music at the moment, X Factor. That I don’t really agree with, I didn’t catch this year’s or last year’s show so I don’t really care about it. All credit to R.A.T.M and that facebook page for pushing this along, its a bit of an odd choice of song but secretly I’d like to see that as number one.

 

I think the singles chart is a bit of a joke because you know that if Cheryl Cole releases a song, you know how many she is going to sell and for long she is going to be number one, that’s kind of a bit ridiculous. I think the albums chart is still very important. I don’t think America even has a singles chart so maybe it will soon be the same over here.

 

I think, 3 albums that they had all been critically acclaimed would signify that we had really made it as a band. That would have an integrity about it that some of my favourite artists have had like Bjork or Bowie or Radiohead.

 

Thats a tough one, I’m going to say Debut by Bjork. Its just got such a fluidity about it from, its got a great mixture of dance tunes and a great mixture of more organic tunes and also the story that goes behind it, she was in the Sugarcubes. Both the her and the producers brought a number of things to it and I would have love to be involved with it in some way.

 

Yeah, people say that. We just turned up and we wanted to play a gig like we normally do. We treated it like any other show. The show has quite a slick production because it moves so quickly so you don’t have time to get worried about it.

 

Its one of the last one’s year... Jools is one of the only shows that showcases a good mix of new artists, different genres and ethnic artists, which is so important for people to be aware of. I didn’t realise how big it was internationally as well. Its got a pull in Europe and I think it goes out in America as well. Luckily, I didn’t find out about that until after the show!

 

Oh definitely yeah, its kind of a first for us as well as we are doing a Delphic version of a 2.0 DJ set, which is where we all line up with our laptops and we play the tunes that we want to play, we send each other drum loops and play drum pads, we play drum machines. Its all very exciting, it should be cool, but yeah the warehouse project means quite a lot to us, we’ve played there a couple of times and its just this thing that comes to Manchester at the end of every year for about 3 months. Its got such a hype around it, and people feel like its so special, it kind of goes back to the dance heritage that Manchester has.

 

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Delphic's debut album, 'Acolyte' is set for release on the 11th January 2010. For more information about Delphic (including tour dates) click here