How do you feel about coming to Bangkok next month?
We’re very excited 'cause we’ve never been there before. It’s going to be one of the first great gigs for us this year as we haven’t had a gig in about six months. I think it’s a great line-up and we’re gonna have a ball. Can’t wait, really.

What is your favorite song off Final Straw?
I think my favorite song from Final Straw was “Chocolate.” It’s a lot of fun to play live and it’s just catchy. I don’t physically know why. To me it’s one of our better songs on the album.

Why do you think it was more successful than your previous albums?
It was probably from a lot of things—there was a new line up, new label, new management. The songs were better mainly, which is kind of important. It’s kind of a mixture of everything coming together at the right time. It’s hard to place it on one thing. We were very surprised by it at the time and we had an amazing two to three years and enjoyed every bit of it. We actually just finished recording our new album just before Christmas and it will be out in April.

What’s the new album like?
It’s better. It’s a lot more rounder, bigger—the louder moments are louder, the quiet moments are quieter. I think the songwriting’s just better, which, obviously, it has to be because we were all kind of pressured to follow up Final Straw.

Have you had many chances to travel and play live?
Yeah, we have. We’ve been very fortunate. We’ve been to America, obviously the UK and Ireland. We’ve also been to countries in Europe, France, Spain, in Germany. Also Scandinavia, Japan, Australia. So we’re kind of working our way around the world at the moment. We’re left with Thailand and that’s going to be very interesting. It’s always good to get experience in different cultures and in different cities and we try to get out as much as we can when we get to go to those places cause that’s what it’s all about, really.