Since you did make extensive use of computer editing in the studio, were you thinking at all about how the music would adapt to live performance?

RANKINE: "No, when you make and album you have to be completely involved in that time and space that you're making it in. Anything that happens, if you want to take it out live then you work out that problem later. you don't have to use the same sounds or the same kind of production of sounds live as you do on the record. It is a completely different kettle of fish."

Were any songs particularly difficult to start doing live?

RANKINE: "There were a couple of songs. "Carondelet" was very difficult at first, we didn't think it was going to work. We were trying to make too much of it; it was basically a song that completely hangs on the vocals. Some of them we've had to rework while wešve been on tour, but it all seems to have come together alright. It's important to keep working on them on tour keep screwing around with them, to see how they evolve and keep us interested. "