One album that I really like and that a few people in the band have listened to a lot recently was the Fiery Furnaces’ last album Widow City. And I really like Sarah Lowes, who played keyboards in the Earlies. She’s just started to make her own music and I think she’s had an EP out recently. She’s doing interesting things that are still based around traditional kind of songwriting – I think she’s [seen as] part of this new folk thing, but to me it’s just music. A nice way of writing songs.

TAC - A few people have said The National reminded them of Tindersticks…

DB - I’ve only heard one record, Boxer [2007]. I know they’ve had a few records out but that’s the only one I’ve really heard. I liked it. I think they’ve got a new record out at the moment, or they’re releasing one. I don’t know what the earlier records sound like. Some people said they sound a bit like a Tindersticksy thing, but I didn’t really think about it when I listened to them. But I liked the songs.

TAC - Do you think the Fender Rhodes will make a comeback?

DB - If you mean for us personally, I’d like it to, but it’s just got impossible for us to carry everything around. It’s just a bit too much for us to have around. We’ve kind of modernised ourselves and started to use samples of it instead.

TAC - The radio station Trent FM asserts that Nottingham is “the world’s best city”. Would you agree?

DB - I still really enjoy Nottingham – I’ve still got family there and go back a few times a year, although it’s very different from the city I grew up in. I like the fact it’s got a small centre so it’s easy to use. I’ve got lots of memories of Nottingham, it’s where I’m from, so I couldn’t knock the place. London’s very different, and where I live in Prague’s very different, but I still feel as though I come from Nottingham and I’m very proud of that.