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we felt comfortable playing you know...oh it was bloody great, it was a really...I have to say it was very special, the tour that we did in clubs because it was so intimate and really...and people who over the past few years had only seen us in big halls were able to come and see us in a very close environm nt, and um, smell the sweat of our armpits as it were, and it was really great and the gigs that we did were brilliant. I mean they were all great, but the things we did like, that's the first time in my life i've ever played in the Newcastle Mayfair. INT :Super club—The Mayfair. STU:Outrageous venue. I don't know why we've never piayed there before, it was brilliant. INT:Are you gonna come back? STU:We're definitely coming back to Newcastle, I don't know whether it will be The Mayfair, but The Skids never even played there, and I don't know why not. It 's a great venue. INT" 'King of Emotion' single number one. Have you any idea what single number two might be? STU:I can tell you exactly, but i 'm not going to INT:Oh go on!!!!! STU:OK. It's going to be a song called 'Broken Heart or '13 Valleys', the same song but the titles in debate at the moment . INT: What's you favourite song from the album? All of them, go on, say it, all of them!! STU:I really like 'Broken Heart and 'Thousand Yard Stare', they're my current favourites. But I am very pleased with the whole album. I think that for the first time all the tracks work as songs in their own right. You know, we can take, things off the album that can stand up on their own. Sometimes, with previous albums, if you took songs out of context, they wouldn't really