AHEAD of performing at the musical Mecca that is Glastonbury tomorrow, Paul Janeway insists it won't make a difference in Brighton the following evening.

St Paul And The Broken Bones, the Alabama soul band that made waves with debut album Half The City in 2013, come to the UK promoting second full-length offering Sea Of Noise.

Singer Janeway tells the Guide: "There is no difference for us. We give everything we've got no matter the show.

"Whether we play to 20 people or 200,000 people we are going to give it all we got.

"You always get in a little routine on tour but nothing too strict, except sleep. I try to get sleep so that I keep my voice in good shape."

Not surprising given the range and power of his vocal, which manages the higher register of Solomon Burke and the shrill rasp of James Brown.

Backed by a full band including brass section, the band's first effort was produced by Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes and harks back to the region’s classic soul roots while pushing the form forward with a fresh potency.

To listen to it doesn't sound like the project Janeway embarked upon with guitarist Jesse Phillips in 2012 and saw as a “last hurrah” before getting on with normal careers.

He says, "I am very surprised with how far the band has come but I am really glad it has happened.

"We get to make music for a living so that is really all you can ask."

On making the first album, he says the results, as part of a jamming process, were largely better than what was in his head.

"I think once you present a song to other people the idea is no longer just yours," he says, "Sometimes I will take the lead and sometimes it is quite democratic. It all depends on the song. Not everything I think of is genius so I need help with that sometimes - as does everyone else who writes in the band."

Janeway’s handle “St Paul” is a wry allusion to the vocalist’s grounding in the church. Like many a legendary soul singer, Janeway, a native of the small town of Chelsea, Alabama, was raised on the gospel side, in a non-denominational, Pentecostal-leaning local church. Virtually no non-religious music could be heard in his devout household.

Janeway says, “The only secular music I heard at all was a 1970s group called the Stylistics, and Sam Cooke. That was about it. The rest of it was all gospel music.

"When I was about ten years old, I was groomed to be a minister. My goal in life until I was about 18 years old was to be a preacher.”

The new album sees the Broken Bones expanded from a six-piece to an eight-piece line-up.

Produced by Paul Butler and recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium, the group’s follow-up effort sees a deepening and broadening of the unit’s musical reach and lyrical concerns.

St Paul And The Broken Bones, Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton, Sunday, June 26, tickets £18 advance, doors 7.30pm, call 01273 673311