TAC - What are your working practices like in terms of the songs? Have they changed much since the early days or do you still work the same kind of way?

DB - I think we kind of work the same way. Everyone had various ideas, and I think that’s why we felt like we needed to make a Tindersticks record. With Stuart’s solo records it’s his songs that he sits and writes, and then everyone gets involved on a different level. But with Tindersticks it’s lots of different ideas from different people and how that happened in a room together and how we’d react to each other. That’s kind of how it’s always been really.

TAC - It sounds like quite a collaborative process. Is there anyone that you haven’t worked with yet that you’d like to?

DB - I think there’s lots of different people around. It’s kind of hard when you’re doing something like with Tindersticks – I suppose even though there’s new people it’s still you [in control]. The way that we work it would be hard for other people to step in, in terms of writing. But on Songs For The Young At Heart we really enjoyed working with different singers, and that’s something that I’d personally like to get more involved with and maybe do something else that involves different singers.

TAC - Why’s the album called The Hungry Saw?

DB - I suppose it’s a lot to do with the song on the album that’s called The Hungry Saw as well. That song’s important to the album because it’s more or less about how you go through life destroying things that you love, like this kind of continuous way of sorting things up and breaking them up. And I think there was a sense for us personally, making the record, of destroying things but also making things at the same time.

TAC - Which other bands are you listening to at the moment?

DB - A lot of different things, lots of old stuff and lots of new stuff.