How much of an impact has Billy and Charlottes split had on the band?
“I think, with Billy, it’s in his lyrics. He’s put it out there to vent his own emotions and people will probably take the lyrics in their own way. It’s fair enough if people think the songs are about Charlotte and they probably are, but personally I don’t know. Billy writes from his heart so I presume a lot of his songs are about his current life situation.”Has it altered the dynamic of the group at all?”Billy, Charlotte and me said right from the start it’s 100% about the music. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, go full-out and try our hardest so nothing can get in our way. I think we showed that when Billy and Charlotte split up. It was very difficult for them in the studio, as they’d only split up a couple of weeks prior to that, but it’s all about the music and we kept positive.”You’ve toured with Oasis and Foo Fighters. Do you ever get star-struck?”On tour it can be stressful and I like to focus on the task in hand, so my mind can be quite clouded. When my manager comes to me an
