Set list
1. Intro
2. Calling Out
3. Queen Of Hearts
4. Leap Of Faith
5. In Your Name
6. Hold Your Nerve
7. This Garden Will Grow/Engine
8. Keep The Engine Burning/Chorus Of Fire

* Photography by Tomasz Wrobel

On the show? Will have to think of my favourite musicians are. Let's see, Frank Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, if I could bring someone back from the dead Jimi Hendrix and now to think of someone completely random, who could be thrown into the mix? Chris Tarrant from 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'

What is the worst chat up line you have heard or tried?

My recollection of one was back in my home town, there was this bar at the top of the town called The Leaf Lounge. It was the only place left open at the end of a night out, we were young; whilst we were in there, there was this chick. A big chick mind you, she barged into me and on purpose knocked my drink out of my hand and knocked her drink. She then said 'So you going to by me a drink?' and I said 'No, not really.'

Who would you most like to have a pint with and why?

That's a good question. I think Bob Marley I would like to sit down and have a pint with. Obviously we [ELECTRIC RIVER] are influenced by a lot of different music; it's not just one niche of what we listen to. For us Bob Marley is quite a big influence, I think he would be a cool guy to sit down and have a beer with.

Being a new listener to ELECTRIC RIVER, I am wondering where the Bob Marley influence comes into the tracks.

When we first started as four kids in a garage sharing the music we got into as kids. These included BLINK 182, THE OFFSPRING, NIRVANA, FOO FIGHTERS and then you have the Nu Metal scene with bands such as LIMP BIZKIT, PAPA ROACH, LINKIN PARK and a lot of Hip Hop. We were fortunate to have a really strong music scene and 'Top of the Pops' was around at the time. Obviously as you get a bit older, you start checking out different styles of music and looking back on some of those bands and influences. So we discovered THE CLASH, SEX PISTOLS and the older Punk Rock bands, in the whole circle of things particularly THE CLASH and some of their Ska stuff you sort of think 'Ooooh Ska what is this?' then you look at THE SPECIALS and THE MADNESS, you get BOB MARLEY. We were just obsessed with music growing up and finding as much old and new stuff as we possibly could so as a band we are influenced by great songwriters and great songs. I mean we have established our own sound but in terms of what we listen to it's very mixed.

You have got a new album coming out tomorrow; would you say it's different to your previous releases?

It's very different to our 2008 album 'Radio No Go' it's more Punky Rock 'N Roll, almost a bit of Ska as well. All these years on, we've done various releases such as little EP releases, more Ska and Reggae in our sound. We hit a point where we created our sound and where we wanted to take it. We felt that was it, we wanted to move on Rock and quite soulful sounding stuff. It's been a natural progression and that's where we're at now; Rock driven, soulful with a Punk edge.

Are there any particular themes you like to write about in your songs?

We write about life and everyday situations; things that have affected us. We've been in a band for a long time; you go through so many experiences as a band, growing up together in the garage as teenagers. Even when we've had different musicians coming in, playing and then going; the four people, the core of the band has always been the same. We've grown up together, we do day jobs; unfortunately we can't rely on the music for a full career so we all go to work. You write songs about life and what affects you, which hopefully is heard on the record.

Now you're on tour, this is the last show?

This is the last date of the tour; we've done six dates with an American band called LIT. It was amazing since it was our first tour support, whereas in the past it was just booking up a lot of what we call DIY shows. Tonight is the same sort of scenario; it's been building up to getting a tour for quite some time via CD releases, press releases of what we've been doing and then finally Live Nation gave us a shot. Every night was packed out and we had great times.

You headlined Camden Rocks festival yesterday, how was that?

Absolutely incredible, there were lots of other bands there similar to us but the whole day was manic. There are bands in every single venue all day long and I think there were two other bands playing at the same time as us so we were closing the festival with two other bands. The thing was The Enterprise where we played is right at the top of Camden, it's more Chalk Farm and the big boxing match was on last night too so we were wondering 'Is anyone going to be there?' The band before us CULT 45 started playing and that's when the audience started to come in so by the time we hit the stage the place was rammed. It was brilliant to have that experience and for it all to work in our favour too.

Were there any particular highlights of the tour? Any crowds that stood out?

It's quite hard to judge crowds taking the band. Every venue is different around the UK; we played a show in Birmingham, we felt like we were playing a great show but we didn't feel like we were getting anything back from the audience. We were thinking 'Are we doing something wrong here?' but we finished playing and everyone was coming up to us saying what a great show it was. That confused us as these particular members weren't cheering as much but we've got friends in Birmingham who said to us 'This is just how it is here.' Our social media websites went ballistic after that show, which we were surprised about but at the same time it was very cool.

Finally, what are your plans for ELECTRIC RIVER after this tour?

We plan to tour in mid-July with the guys from CULT 45 as they'll have an album out around that time and just play as many shows as we can and our album is out Monday so we're excited about that.

Thank you very much Sponge, it's been a pleasure.