The inimitable Irrepressibles are currently on tour! with their show “NUDE in ELECTRO”. It's an electronic reimagining of their previous live shows and will be performed at clubs internationally and across the UK. We caught up with the band while on tour to ask them a few questions, and hear about their new show.

Attitude: It must be great to hear remixes by the likes of Royksopp. Do you ever hear remixes of your stuff that you’re not keen on?

No not really I know it sounds rather too easy going but creativity is the important thing and it's amazingly flattering that someone would take the time to rework a song I've written and take it into another genre of music or style, I sometimes even get the chance to re-sing over this and take it even further away from the original to a different emotion as a vocalist.

Attitude: With so many people in the group, and so much creatively going on, is there ever conflict of opinion when it comes to your new material?

It sometimes takes a while to prove my new material to my discerning band, sometimes there are looks of confusion at what I'm trying to do, but they say that they always like what I eventually create, but that doesn't mean they might not get it along the way. They are incredibly supportive of me creatively, I am very grateful to them for this.

Attitude: What are you bringing to your reimagining of your live shows – why will fans of the live shows love it, and if people haven’t seen you before, how would you describe yourselves?

It's a high energy show of very eclectic electronic music, with some very emotional moments for me, there's allot of darkness and sexuality. Sarah Kershaw is also grinding a Keytar and the boys get sweaty what more a reason do you need to come and see it? Its definitely visceral.

Attitude: How much input do you guys get into the choreography, and how much rehearsal time does it take to get everything looking as polished as it does?

I choreograph them at the same time as composing the music but there is a very personal process of them connecting to the line of the music or the beat that speaks volumes about their personalities and I am very blessed to be gifted with such talented performers. It's a bit like being a dancer of any kind, you learn the process and then express more of yourself than you ever could imagine of your subconscious. A fan remarked that the focus of one of our drummers the other day was scary, so intense that he thought  he was going to explode, then he did, but through the drums thankfully.

Attitude When can we expect a new album, and how will it compare to the stuff we already know?

The record is very different to the first incarnation of The Irrepressibles with Mirror Mirror. Nude is an album about time and nature, the visceral and memory, and it deeply focused on sexuality. It's a powerfully homosexual record that seems to appeal to heterosexuals also with its depiction of the beauty of raw sexuality and love. There is allot of David Lynch like atmosphere - reverbed electric guitar, intimate 50's doo-wop style backing vocals fusing with modern sub bass, 80's electronica, on some tracks with huge growing organic structures of polyphonic baroque and 30's style orchestrations meets electronics. I love the way this combination sounds like the sound in a thunderstorm. Sounds like a heady mix of course but I feel that life and people are diverse and situations are complex to explain through music.

The new album Nude is released on the 1st October this year, before which we have a couple more singles and music videos coming... We have a limited edition version of the album with the music videos we're rolling out over the campaign available to purchase now on pre-order.

Jamie McDermott of The Irrepressibles  

20th JUNE 2012
THE RAINBOW, BIRMINGHAM
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21st JUNE 2012
ARCHES, GLASGOW
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22nd JUNE 2012
THE CLUNY, NEWCASTLE
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11th JULY 2012
HOXTON BAR & KITCHEN, LONDON