 Hello and you're very welcome back to MPS goes to Westport Festival. I'm sitting here with a wonderful Mundi. Mundi, how are you? So you've just finished playing. Mundi, how did it go? Very well, very well. It's kind of like something I've been looking forward to all year. Really? Yeah, these festivals kind of in Ireland, like whichever one you choose to do or get, but it's kind of like your chance to kind of shine. So for me it was a big day. And why do you think that is? I play all over the country in various different venues, various different sizes. This is like you get to play to three or four thousand people or more, whatever, like that tent, I don't know what it holds, three or four thousand. But it's like a capsule, you know, it's compact and you get an hour. I mean I had to drop a few of my favourite songs today to squash them all in. And it must be great to hear those three or four thousand people singing your songs back to you. Yeah, it's mad. I mean I still get quite nervous or uptight about these events because if you drop the ball at all, I always feel like it's you. It's kind of like an exam there, I've got a really stupid way of looking at this. But like I keep forgetting that I have a kind of repertoire of songs that actually I shouldn't even have to worry anymore. Especially on a beautiful day like July or Mexico or having to call a girl. So it was brilliant. July was off 24-star hotel that went more than triple platinum which was amazing. Can you tell me a little bit about that record? Strange, I put my first album in 1996 and then I got dropped by the record label. I made 24-star hotel in 1999 I think. Then in the year 2000 the record label were getting rid of a couple of other bands off their roster. I was one of them and I couldn't get the album back from them. So they actually dropped you before 24-star hotel? Yeah, but I recorded it for them. And then legally you had a little thing and I got it back and I only put it out in 2002. So it was actually written for? So it was meant to come out in 1999 or 2000. Anyway, long story short I released it myself on my own record label after I got it back. And July just became this kind of like it was like the new flu. It just went viral. And I'd say the record company were fairly kicking themselves after seeing that. Fairness, they were really into that song. That was the one song that said that was a hit and I was like the chorus isn't finished. I was like who's going to listen to all my love about July? And it just stuck. Yeah, really, really, really did. So back to present day you're recording a new album at the minute. Can you release any information about that yet? I can't wait about it. The guy who produced my first album was a guy called Youth and he's in a band called Killing Joke. He produced Urban Hems by the Verve and he's worked with Paul McCartney and loads of people like Echo and the Bunny Man or whatever. And I hadn't seen him in 16 years since the two weeks we spent in Wales on my first album. And I went in to see him in the Button Factory. He's a band and I went up to him and he was selling CDs after it. And I was like alright man, no idea who I was. He's like are you familiar looking? I was like I'm Monday and he said no way, I thought I'd see you again. So anyway he said why don't you come over to London and do a bit of writing. So I was telling him that I just had two kids and I had a bit of a writer's block. And you know managing myself and doing it all on my own. He goes nah, you've got to come over and we'll sort that out. So we went off to Spain in January of this year and we started the album and it's nearly mixed down. Well that sounds very interesting. So I'm just trying to figure out the strategy of how I'm going to put it out there and all that. So when can we expect that new album? I'm not sure. Because it's very hard now to put out a record. If your songs are really strong you can miss the boat. It's all about planning. You could send the song to radio and it might get played and then the album's over. So I just have to be careful but I'd like to have something up online before Christmas. Great. And then maybe have it next to your whole album. It's getting scarier, it's getting scarier the whole time you know. Well Berlin, we look forward to hearing that Monday. Thanks a million for chatting to us. So that was Monday here at MPS Ghosts to Westport Festival.