And the Hello and this is Brian and this is Simon.

And joining us today are two members of one of the best British bands of the last 20 years.

Defying easy categorization with the heady blend of psychedelia, folk, rock, Motown, Mersey Beat, reggae and much else besides.

They shot to fame in 2002 with their self-titled Makery nominated debut album.

As we record this, they're about to release their self-produced

ninth studio LP Move Through the Dawn, arguably their strongest collection

yet which is just packed with great tunes. We are delighted to welcome the corals James Skelly and Nick Power to the show.

We met with frontman James and keyboard player Nick in Liverpool at the esteemed

par street studios in the city centre where the album was recorded and had a very enjoyable chat with them

which you'll hear in just a few minutes.

The coral hail from Hoy Lake on the Wirral Peninsula, Mersey Side, over the water as we say here in

Liverpool. Originally called Hive they were formed at

hillbru high school in West Kirby in 1996 by drummer Ian Skelly and bassist Paul Duffy

when they were just 14. They then recruited Ian's brother James and guitarists Lee Southall and

Bill Ryder Jones.

Monte Instrumentless Nick came on board as a Keys player in 1998. Jamming together

in the basement of Flatfoot Sam's pub in Hoy Lake and inspired by the likes of Pink Floyd,

Can and Captain Beefhart, as well as Classic 60s Pop and Motown, they developed the sound uniquely their own,

which eventually came to the attention of the late Alan Wills.

Well, to be exact, he'd seen one of their gig posters and was so intrigued by the image on it of a man's head exploding that he went to watch them live before he'd even heard them.

Suitably impressed, Wills became their mentor and de facto manager

and credited the band with providing the impetus for Delta Sonic,

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