 Hello and you're very welcome to MPS Goes to Westport Festival. I'm sitting here with a five-piece vocal harmony band. Yes. The Overtones. Hello. How are you doing? Hello. How are you guys? I'm good, I'm good, thank you. That was brilliant. It looked like Greyphone, did you enjoy it? Yeah, we just came off just now. It was an absolute ball. You looked like you were having Greyphone, which was brilliant. Yeah, I kind of think sometimes when we're performing, when it's like really sunny and harsh, that I wish we were at that T-shirt wearing band. I was going to say, I was thinking that you must have been roasting in the suits. I think we could probably ring them out now and like yeah. But it's grand, listen, we had a ball, lovely crowd, nice vibe there. It's nice to see a festival where you know there's adults and children, families, everyone's just there. That's it. Like enjoying the music and people are a good boogie. Can you tell me a little bit about your debut album? I've sold half a million. I'm going to hand this over to Mike. This is Mike. Hand the mic to Mike. Hello everyone, my name's Mike. I'm Mike. Yeah, yeah, that was a bit of a fashion love. It was kind of a bit of a surprise. We got signed by the label and we weren't sure how much they were expecting us to sell and I think it was like, you know, they might sell 10,000 and we'll see how we get on and 500,000 later. Can you fairly smash that record? It was a big surprise for everybody working with us. Apart from us, we always had faith in what we did and how we did it and we knew that if we could get ourselves out there, people would enjoy what we do. And since then it's just been an absolute whirlwind. We've built a career and we're still going strong and loving life. So how did the band meet, guys? Well, four of us, minus lucky actually, met I'd say about four and a half years ago. On the April mic night in London, we've been individually singing and performing and we met and decided to form a group. And from there, we kind of stayed together for all those years and actually ended up forming, weirdly, a painting and decorating company who's trying to make ends meet and we needed a way to earn money and also be together to rehearse. And actually, Timmy also was lucky enough to meet Locky. I'm going to hand you over to Timmy. So were you singing, painting kind of? Yeah, people kind of say that, but to be fair, it was like we were doing bar work, restaurant work the whole lot and that was a clever way to listen, to be fair. I think when you're involved in music, you have to be clever about what you're doing as your sideline. And yeah, we've literally had so many jobs, but you have to. But basically, I was doing a promoter job, handing out leaflets in a department store in London and met this guy with this great bass voice called Locky and then met the lads and started singing together and then weirdly enough, it was kind of like three months later, we actually got discovered, invited him to Warner to sing for the big bosses. And we've handed out demos, we've knocked on people's door so, you know, we've done the rounds and it actually, you know, Lady Lock was there and kind of went, right, this is your chance, boys. You know, we put in the hard work along the way. So, yeah, I'm very proud of us for our roots, painting and decorating, waiting on tables, whatever we did. You've got to do those things. When should we expect to hear your new album? That would be, I'd say, October, November time, right? Yes. Yeah, we're not sure, yeah, of the exact date, but around that time. Great, and that'll be available everywhere and we'll catch you all over the place. Hopefully you'll see us on TV. Painting walls and serving dinners and stripping and doing ballet. Well, obviously, like, we always come and perform at the Leigh Leigh in Ireland, so it's great doing the Leigh Leigh show, but it'll be available in Golden Dis, H&P. So that's great, guys. Thanks a million. It was lovely to talk to you. Thank you. And best of luck with all the studio work that you're doing. Thank you very much. That was the Overtones here and MPS goes to Westport.