 We are backstage here at Vantastaville with MPS Ghost 2 and the wonderful Hot Sprockets lads! How are we getting on? Good, yeah! A fear! A freshly off-stage Hot Sprockets may I add lads, that was absolutely amazing. I had the pleasure of peeking through the back to see, it was brilliant, brilliant. Did you enjoy it? Yeah, it was awesome, it was steady. We played at Vantastaville a few times for two years or something like that. Yeah, they were always great, and then didn't get to play it last year, so it's a bit different since we were down last, but main stage there was great, it's in a tent, so everyone was united on the same boat. Yeah, yeah, that's cool, it's cooling about the Vantastaville, it's kind of small and it kind of encapsulates everybody really. I was just going to say that. I was doing an E17 there. Fantastic! We should get you a headset, Mike. You're no strangers to festival lads, you've played Casabaloo's and Sea Sessions, Electric Picnic to name but a few, but what brings you back to Vantastaville? You mentioned that you've been here a few times. This little backstage room brought us back. This particular, this room in particular. We were like always come down, we were like it's that little backstage room going to be there, and they said, Vantastaville always reminds us about, it's always the first festival. Yeah, it kind of kick-steps the summer. It's always like the start, at any time I think of Vantastaville, it's always the first. I kicked all the summer off. So you say it's kicking the summer off, so does that mean you've got loads of festivals coming up? Yeah, we've got a few, and we're doing our own tour as well. Oh, brilliant. It's kind of feels like we're going to Christmas. And are you touring your second album? Yeah. Has that been named yet? Yeah, it's called Brother Nature. Brother Nature, cool, cool. It's out in 7th of June. 7th of June, cool, so we'll hear it there. I know that there wasn't a huge production value on your first album, but it's still shot at the top, so you made up for that working with the likes of Declan Gaffney on your second album. What was that like? Take it, come on. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, it was simple album. He was on tap. He didn't say any one word. So off the back of your hugely successful first album, Honey Skipping, you've moved on and recorded your second album, Brother Nature, which should be out on the 7th of June. Yeah, or is it 6th of June? On the 6th of June, we have a launch in the Button Factory on the 7th of June. On the 7th of June? Okay, brilliant, brilliant. We've got some musicians in. We'll have backing singers and the flute. Oh cool, so it'll be a huge production? Yeah. Brilliant, look forward to it. It's going to be a tasty show. Actually, we've got this cool lighting show with cool backdrop visuals going on. Brilliant. With this guy, our friend Jeff, who helped with the home's notes video. Oh, cool. He's done all the projections and all the kind of stuff for that video. He's doing our show, our visuals. Brilliant. It's going to be cool. The fans are going to get me a part of the visuals. It's kind of an interactive show. It's going to be kind of an interactive day. Oh, that's very good, I like that. The most interactive one we'll probably ever do. And tonight was quite an interactive show. It was, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. You popped into the crowd for a while. Yeah, I went for it. I thought it was going to break and I was like, who cares if the break's out? Okay. Do a flip. Yeah. So this second album that's coming out, can you tell us a bit about the recording process? Because I understand that it was, that you had some big names behind it. Yeah, yeah. We had Dr. Double G, who's Gavin Glass. He was producing that. Can you even call that? Yeah, he does that. That's why we have to call him that every interview. He only works if he's called Dr. Double G. Yeah, yeah. No, he doesn't. Dr. Double G, I don't know if he loves it. I don't know. I'll tell you he loves it. It's a good name. He loves it. He loves it. He loves it. But yeah, it's how he was helping out producing. And then then we got it mixed by Dick and Gaffney and Dougalot as well. So yeah. But yeah, it was cool recording this time. It was totally different to the first. The first one we were all in together for the second. It was only seven days and two days mixing. And we were all in for that real close, real quick, kind of getting it down. And this time though, it was like spaced out. We had recorded like bass and drums and windmill. Did eight tracks. Then recorded over down with Gavin and stuff like that. Then went back into Grouse and we had four more. We actually had like, we had two more and then we were like, we just busted out two more and two weeks coming up to record. So two of them are fresh. One of them was home slice. I mean, it just kind of changed around that day as well in recording. Brilliant. So there was a lot of kind of different aspects going for different sounds or different studios, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I was killed as well. It's just, every time you record, you get a lot of experience. So you start learning even from that one there now, you can't wait to get into the third one. Yeah. Third one's gonna be. So guys, we shall see you at the album launch on the 6th of June and we look forward to the tour. 7th of June. Okay. Album's out 6th. That's what you were thinking about. Okay guys, we look forward to seeing you at your album launch on the 7th of June and of course on the Brother Nature tour, which is Kickstarter that night. Yeah. So that was the Hot Sprockets here, backstage of Antastal with MPS Ghost 2.