Despite the favourable results however, BLAGD has been subject to various degrees of change in the three years since it was recorded. One could be have been forgiven for presuming the album would never make it out, such was Nigel's restless attention to the smallest of detail, but, he says, he's finally ready to let go.

"I did some recording with Jamie at home after the recording in France, it was mainly vocals, a couple of guitar and some keys. I wasn't fully happy with some of the songs, particularly the vocals, so I wanted to redo them. I also wasn't happy with the mixes of those four songs so after redoing the vocals we sent them back over to David to mix again. We also took out a couple of songs and changed the running order. I think it was when I heard the new mixes of those songs that I believed the album was ready for release, that was the first time that I felt completely proud of the record, that was the first time that I thought that this is the best we could do with this record and I don't think the way the album was originally reflected that. I think that was the moment when I wanted to release it and move on."

And what are his thoughts on BLAGD now, considering the album was recorded back in 2005? Over the course of three years numerous changes, both personal and musical, can take place - so, with that in mind it's not entirely surprising to find Nigel's eager to move on and put the album to rest.

"It is something that I am very proud of, I think we all are. I believe it was a step up from Catering for Headphones in terms of both song-writing and production, although there are of course still a few small things that I might change given the opportunity but nothing that really bothers me. Overall I think it still holds up well after the delay, I don't think it fits in with any current musical trends, especially considering we wrote the songs in 2005 but I think once the songs and the production are good the record should still sound good no matter how long it is after you record it, and I would hope that that is the case with this, and with Catering for Headphones too hopefully.

"For me on a personal level, no it doesn't have the same relevance, I don't think it possibly could given the time it has taken and everything that has happened during that time, but I think practising the songs together again live has been great, because that is how they were written, the three of us in the garage, and I'd forgotten how great a time that was, because we were practising and playing so much and we wrote so many songs at that time, quite a few which we played live but didn't record, and I think that's how I would like to remember the songs, from the time we wrote them and recorded them on a dictaphone."

And so what next? "I have been writing all the time since we recorded Battle Lines so I would like to make an album soon enough. I just hope it doesn't take 4 years to finish it," he says with a smile.

I, for one, share in that hope.

Waiting Room play Cyprus Avenue on Sunday, April 13.

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