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At the London gig of the World Service UK Tour a few weeks back, I did an interview with Delirious? The whole band were there, in their dressing room sat on sofas. I threw questions at them, and each of them pitched in with an answer when they wanted to. As well as finding out how the tour was going, there were a few things I wanted to ask them about.

Delirious? in their dressing room, dressed in their
matching pinstriped suits, minutes before going on stage.
I asked them if they thought World Service was their best album to date. There was quite a long moment of silence while they considered that, before Stu came up with an answer. He basically said that it was the best, but that they always think their latest work is their best. It was also interesting to hear them say that while on tour they'd taken the time to listen to some of their old albums. Stu mentioned Glo and Mezzamorhpis and Stew said that he'd recently listened again to King Of Fools and realised what a good album it had been.

Perhaps a rather sensitive topic that I wanted to touch on during that interview was that of Grapevine. At first there were nervous laughs and comments like "Grapevine, what about it?". I wouldn't have blamed them for not wanting to give an answer, but Martin spoke up and gave a very open and honest account of their experience when a section of seating gave way while they were on stage, leaving a handful of people injured. I didn't ask about Grapevine to stir up any controversy, but I did think it would be good to get their thoughts and comments on what happened. I've not heard them speak publicly about it before, so it was good to get their reaction to the event.

When thinking about what questions to put to Delirious? when I interviewed them, I thought about what questions had caused the most discussion on the forum recently. I came up with three: Will they ever make a live DVD? When will the next album be released? What is the song American President about? The question of a DVD has been a hot topic for months and Tim took on the task of answering it. He said that the band would love to do it, and probably will one day, but because of how expensive it would be to make a live DVD they've put it off for now.

On the subject of the band's next album I've read various stories on the web about how they'll enter the studio in the new year and record the songs they've already written. The truth, according to Martin, is that they're in no rush to start recording the next album. They're still having too much fun with World Service to go back into the studio. There are plenty of countries that they'd like to go to next year to introduce other fans to the World Service songs, and that could take up much of the year. Their minds are still on a new album, but they haven't set any dates for recording or releasing it yet.

The question about American President made them laugh. It seemed relevant since America will be voting for a President shortly, and it's also been talked about a lot on the discussion group lately. It's a fun song, but rather baffling. After a bit of banter about whether or not Martin really did want to become the American President, he finally admitted that there was no significant meaning behind the song and that he just liked the words.

Read the full interview for yourself and find out exactly what they had to say on all of these and other topics.