Fatherson: "We love playing in Leeds; the crowds are always great fun"

Who doesn’t love playing Leeds, that’s the better question. Fatherson are pros on the touring circuit with several years and thousands of live sets under their belts, so they know a thing or two about where’s good. Bassist Marc Strain has a catch-up ahead of the band’s set at Live At Leeds. Hey Marc, how’s it going? It's going very well indeed thank you. What are you guys up to at the mo, getting ready for festival season? We are, first up though we have our biggest ever headline show at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. We’ve also got a couple of shows at Omera in London which are set to be really special. We’re just back from the US also, so we’ve had a few days to recover and are back at it now. It's nice to have a few headline shows interspersed around festival season kicking off. How do you prepare for spending so long on the road and in muddy fields? Does it get any easier with experience? It definitely does. The first festival we ever played was T in the Park back in 2011 I think, and we made the mistake of arriving on the Friday (for a Sunday slot) and getting far too into the festival spirit. These days it's much more of a one-day affair. Your new Reimagined EP is fun, are you going to crack out any re-workings live? I don’t think so. It was really more of a studio project. We wanted to go in and forget everything that we knew about recording music, no guitars, no drum kits just a computer and some keyboards. It was a lot of fun. We worked with our friends Blue Americans on it, and it was nice to spend a week at their studio in Belfast just hanging out and experimenting. I think it turned out as a really nice companion to the full record.