Like all truly exciting artists, Weevil's own unique sound has developed from stupidly large record collections and eclective music tastes. Not to mention a keen interest in experimenting. The group fuse everything from the drones of classic shoegazer's to dreamy, sunshine pop and even contemporary electronica. To date they have a handful of singles, remixes and two albums, including the recent well-received 'Drunk On Light' LP under their belts. Chris Rose recently caught up with pop's most promising stars for an indepth chat.

'Drunk On Light' is available now through Wichita Recordings and new single 'Halfsmile' will be released shortly. In the meantime, check out the Weevil website.

Hi guys, how's tricks? Enjoying the spot of good weather we've been having just lately?

Things are good! What's up with the weather? We were working on tracks a couple of weeks ago at Tom's in Sheffield and we had major hailstones, thunder and rain. Now we're down south the sun is shining. It's grim up North!! (Just the way Tom likes it)

You'd been around for a little while before signing to Wichita, releasing music on the Wiaiwya label...how and where did you meet and when did you first start making music together?

We met at Goldsmith's College and have known each other for about 10 years, but only started doing tunes about 5 years ago. Jonny was in an indie band before and Tom made techno as Vendor Refill...We both got a bored and started mixing it all up together. We then met up with John Jervis from Wiaiwya at 'All Tomorrow's Parties' and he wanted to put out an album. We did a single ourselves at the same time. We then met Dick and Mark from Wichita when they heard the album and signed in November last year.

How would you personally describe your own music? Do you see yourselves as veering more towards glitchy abstract electronica or indie-pop? - as I can hear plenty of both and much more besides!

I'd say the album 'Drunk On Light' is more indie in the sense that buried under all the mashed up sounds, there's still songs and guitars. However, the new stuff is more electronic...so it varies. When we do gigs as a duo, the songs from 'Drunk On Light' sounds more hard and glitchy.

How long did it take to make the fantastic 'Drunk On Light' album? Was the crafting of each track painstakingly slow or once you had ideas for something did you just go for it and beaver away feverishly until you were satisfied?

Some trax came really quickly and others we'd spend hours and hours just getting an accordion sound just right. But it's definitely not a three-piece garage rock act banging an album out in an afternoon! The music's built up layer by layer.

Could you see yourself collaborating with anyone else in the future? Are there any musicians or vocalists you particularly admire and would like to work with one day?

There's loads of people! We love pretty much all the Morr Music acts like The Notwist and Lali Puna so doing something with them would be cool. Also hooking up with Postal Service / DNTEL would be nice...we got offered a Death Cab For Cutie tour but we we're away...shame. We're always up for remixes and stuff.

What about personal music tastes? It seems like a massively broad church of influences have been drawn upon and given your own spin to create the distinctive Weevil sound, what music are you both fans of? Is the 'shoegaze' music of the 80's and 90's an inspiration?

'Shoegaze' is a broad term because a number of 'Shoegaze' bands were awful! However, many were amazing...Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Pale Saints, Bark Psychosis etc bands that really made sonic music, messed around with technology and strived to do something different. But we listen to loads of other stuff as well: Warp bands, generative electronic stuff, Morr Music bands, Shellac, some folk stuff, film soundtracks.

How was the recent tour with Athlete and Snow Patrol? Did you win any new converts and is it a priority for you to break through and appeal to a wider audience? Was it daunting playing large venues?

The Athelete gigs were great...they looked after us all so well! We got quite a few emails from people saying they heard us at the gigs and got the record, so it's all good. We're up for as many people hearing it as possible, many won't get it but hopefully some will who wouldn't normally listen 'outside the loop'. The first few gigs were mad...Cambridge Corn Exchange was our third ever gig with that line up...but when we got to Brixton on the last night it was amazing, loud and sonic and packed.

Do you enjoy going out on the road, or do you see yourselves more as producers in a studio based environment? Is it important for you to express yourselves musically in a live environment?

I think we're slightly control freaks. In the studio you can make everything sound just how you want. Live pretty much anything can happen. But it's definitely a buzz playing live and meeting people is cool.

Any Weevil groupies or obsessive fans yet?!

People write to us saying flattering things...quite a few from Italy, Germany and Spain...which is great. When we play as a five piece our drummer Steve always gets all the attention, he's got a massive Armish style beard and a shaved head...people just want to stroke his facial hair - they can't help themselves!

What was it like remixing Super Furry Animals for their 'Phantom Phorce' remix album? 'Hello Sunshine' must've been quite a hard track for you to tackle!

It actually went pretty smoothly, only took a couple of days. I think we had a definite idea of how we wanted it to sound and stuck with it. The Athlete remix was harder, we wanted to keep the song upfront but mash all the beats up. It worked out eventually.

What would you do and where would you go if you were to be mistakenly transformed, via ultra hyperlode gamma rays, into actual weevils? (Boll, dust or otherwise!)

I think we'd have to hang out in a forest somewhere, I wouldn't fancy being in someone's sweaty mattress or in a potato. Yep in a gnarly old oak I reckon.

What were your favourite childhood toys? Mine were Sticklebricks, Lego and Weebles. I especially remember the Weebles theme song "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down".

Red Ted (a teddy who was red!), Space Lego, radio controlled car and Spectrum...These all made a lasting impression on us.

And lastly, what's next on the horizon for Weevil? you have a single 'Halfsmile' released from the album soon, are there any interesting b-sides planned for that? And do you plan on doing a stand-alone tour at some point?

We've got an older track called 'Lapsed' which is gonna be on the single...Plus the video a friend of mine called Jamie made which is amazing! I think we're trying to get a tour together for July...Keep an eye on the website ( www.weevilmusic.co.uk ) for details.

Thanks a lot for your time fellas, good luck for the future!

Cheers Chris.