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Metronomy’s Joseph Mount and Oscar Cash are sitting around a vast, mottled banquet table in a workshop and studio that faces a rose-clad courtyard. A rural idyll this is not; their oasis is hidden behind grimy roller shutters on one of the grittiest streets in East London where all the shops’ windows are covered in mesh grills all the time.

Inside our bubble, Music Towers, Joseph and Oscar are drinking tea from a fat turquoise teapot. The two are excited - they and bassist Gabriel Stebbing are about to perform on the main stage at the Wireless festival the following day. Metronomy has had a pretty amazing 18 months, metamorphosing from one Brighton electronica artist into a wildly entertaining live three piece who has played SXSW, The Great Escape, Bestival, End Of The Road and is soon to play Reading/Leeds.

How does it feel to be so tipped for success? “It doesn’t feel like that at all,” says Joseph. “We haven’t actually had anything out for a long time. There’s been about 15 remixes out though. But I’m looking forward to getting working again on the second album. The only slight drawback is that when the next album is out people might think it’s a remix album.”

Metronomy has certainly made a name through producing some of the most interesting remixes of the most interesting releases of 2006 and 2007. Some deft selecting process must be at work there. “In all honesty to begin with - I wasn’t really choosing. It was more about earning a bit of money,” Mount says candidly. “Having said that, a lot of those remixes were for really good bands. Since then I’m definitely being a lot more selective because there have not been many Metronomy releases for a while and you start to get offered remix requests from bands you’ve played with that you don’t necessarily like!”

Intriguingly, Metronomy is not comfortable with its own material being remixed, as Joseph makes plain, “The only remix of Metronomy has been the South Central one. I was thinking the other day, I’m not really sure if I’m up for people remixing it because I think people might try to be a bit clever clever. I want to get bands to do cover versions instead because you get quite a lot of bands who think they can do remixes and they can’t,” says Mount suppressing a laugh. “Rather than them stretching themselves, they can leave it to the professionals!”