Eagulls: the road to the Paul O'Grady Show

Eagulls' debut album was no slouch, but their follow up 'Ullages' is something else entirely. The kind of confident, strident album so few bands ever get around to making, it sounds like the kind of timeless record that gives birth to whole sub-cultures of its own. While obvious comparisons might be made to certain 80s indie icons, there's no denying that it has its own skin - the feel of a band who are discovering who they really are, and where that leads them.

So while the rest of us are wondering how big the venues could get, or how high up those festival bills they might find themselves, what is frontman George Mitchell aiming for? The Paul O'Grady Show. Of course he is.

Your new album is out now. It feels as though the band has experienced a lot since the debut - have there been any particular highlights? The highlights since the debut for me is seeing the record go to places where we all thought it never could go. When we started to write the songs from the debut we never thought anyone would hear it or see us play it live outside of our style of musics community. So to travel all around the world playing those songs to fresh ears was quite an achievement I feel.