Circa Waves chat album four backstage at Reading Festival: "It's done... no, really, it's done"

'What's It Like Over There?', Circa Waves' most recent album, tickled the top ten and now the band are playing their biggest ever slot at Reading & Leeds. We caught up with Kieran and Joe from the band ahead of their set to talk about the next album (coming soon!) the perils of playing late in the day, and a mystery clay pot filled to the brim with Korean booze... Hi guys, how does it feel to be so high up the bill this time around? Kieran: It's great, but it holds its own problems because it means that we're up against Royal Blood. You go through a phase of 'incredible, look how high up we are!' followed swiftly by 'shit, we're up against one of the biggest rock bands in the world' *laughs* I dunno, maybe I just need to believe in myself more. Joe: I think people will turn up. I mean, we're exclusively playing Royal Blood songs, so that should solve the problem. Kieran: Yeah, they left that bit off the poster. It should say 'Circa Waves play the songs of Royal Blood'. We asked them to play our songs, but they just don't reply. I'm trying to get them to play 'Goodbye', nice and riffy so I think they'd smash it. I'll ask again, but they're just not returning my calls...