I'm not a fucking farmer so what would I be doing ploughing a furrow? Leave the lame metaphors to the bespectacled cleverdick, and if you want to keep the peace don't mention him in the same paragraph as me.

The songs on this album didn't loom large - they aren't the soundtrack to our love affair or some other such vomit-inducing ridiculousness. They're just a collection of songs that we enjoyed recording, a lot of which we've featured in our live shows over the past three years or so.

I'm not embarrassed by our version of Fernando, it has a great tension to it and brings out something in the song that the Abba version misses. So we'll have to agree to differ on that.

Apart from that, all I need to know now is what does counterintuitively mean? We're not a couple of idiot savants - we actually worked out the harmonies using notes and chords.

That said we're pretty well thrilled to have a review in The Sunday Times. Hope you're as thrilled with my review of the review.