When The Guide spoke to Stina Tweeddale back in August, Glaswegian duo Honeyblood were celebrating a well-received debut album and preparing for a debut headline UK tour.

NME had, perhaps predictably, gushed over the irresistibly fuzzy 1990s indie pop on the band’s first full-length offering, recorded in Connecticut with The National’s go to guy, Peter Katis.

But on Wednesday things changed. Tweeddale’s right-hand girl, drummer Shona McVicar, was out.

“We're sad to announce that after much deliberation Shona is leaving the band and moving on to other endeavours,” an official statement read. “All live dates and activity will remain as scheduled. We are excited to welcome the awesome Cat Myers to the drums as of tomorrow’s gig in Leeds and all shows going forward!”

Below the official statement someone joked on Facebook, “I’ve got to ask – is one of you voting yes and one of you voting no?”

Whatever the reason, it’s definite that Myers, a Scot from Edinburgh who plays in band called Deer Lake, will take over the skins for the forthcoming tour.

Tweeddale’s phone was switched off yesterday, but in truth the departure might not be unexpected. She never envisioned being a two-piece – and mentioned as much when we first caught up.

“We never started the band thinking it was going to be just the two of us. When we started the band I wanted to play bass. That is how bizarre the situation is. I wanted to write the songs and play bass and have someone else to play the guitar but now we have come this far.

“When we started playing live shows people were like, ‘it is amazing the two of you can make so much noise’. We could never get to the point where could find anyone who could fit in - especially when we started proper gigging and touring...

“That’s not to say that person doesn’t exist somewhere, or the people don’t exist, so we are still advertising for other band members. Constantly. It could change, who knows.”

Tweeddale was referring to extra members to transfer the studio sound to the stage. But what the lines reveal is the Honeyblood songwriter has big ambitions.

She admits she likes some two-pieces, especially The White Stripes, but her heroes are PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Riot grrrl bands.

“Songwriting wise I guess Jenny Lewis is a big influence. Her new album sounds absolutely amazing. Those bands are more of an influence than any two-piece is on me.”

Though she has adapted her guitar playing to make the whirling lo-fi wash of Super Rat and the two-and-half-minute thrash, Killer Bangs work in the live arena.

“Naturally, I write the songs with the absence of a bass. So I play the bass lines as well as the chords most of the time. And Shona has changed her drumming style to make sure she wasn’t leaving any big space. Definitely the both of us have subconsciously played we don’t have anyone else.

“People say we sound too loud for two people. But it is a thing we have designed to do that. Anyone would - you want it to sound as good as you can, so we just try to fill in gaps.”

Even though it will be Myers filling in the gaps this time around – and despite the dramatic news – Tweeddale will still be looking forward to returning to her second home.

Quality Brighton independent FatCat Records have been with Honeyblood since the beginning. Label boss Alex [Knight] spotted the duo at an Edinburgh showcase Wide Days.

“We were the first band on and we had only played one gig before and we’d only been together two months. He watched the show and afterwards he bought all the merchandise. After that we started working with him.

“He gave us the freedom and opportunity to develop, let us do what we wanted and here we are two years later.”