OFTEN, musicians embark on solo careers to get away from the band they are most associated with.

Not so for Michele Stodart, whose brother Romeo – also a member of indie rock band The Magic Numbers – is playing at Komedia literally the night before she is (Romeo is collaborating with Ren Harvieu). It turns out the reason is more convenience than coincidence, but Stodart still laughs that the situation is “crazy.”

“I’m jumping on stage and playing bass with Romeo on my days off from my own tour,” says the singer, who was born in Trinidad, moved to New York with her family when she was four, and again six years later to London. “CJ, my drummer, plays with Ren Harvieu too, so it’s all incestual.”

Stodart is best known as bassist for The Magic Numbers, in which Michele and Romeo are joined by another sibling duo, Angela and Sean Gannon, and whose self-titled 2005 debut album was a cult hit, nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.

Based around shimmering harmonies from the Stodarts, listening to the record now is – for those who enjoyed it first time around – to experience a warm nostalgia for a recent but bygone age. It has that indefinable vintage feel which so many bands strive for but only a few achieve.

“It definitely held a moment in time,” reflects Stodart. “We’re almost listening back to it as a new band now. You can hear the youth in the music. There is a nostalgic, therapeutic element to it.”

It was a whirlwind time for Stodart in particular, as she, five years Romeo’s junior, navigated sudden pop acclaim.

“I was 17 when I joined the band,” she says. “We did a couple of gigs, then got managers, and pretty much after that we were deciding which label to sign with. Then the album exploded. Huge dreams came true. It happened so quickly that we couldn’t even catch our breath or ask each other how we were all dealing with it.”

It would be fair to say latter day Magic Numbers releases have not lived up to that debut – at least in terms of the UK charts. Alias, released in 2014, charted at number 57.

Stodart has been telling audiences up and down the country that “the band is not splitting up,” though, and a fifth record is slated for next spring, with the siblings working on it remotely on the road.

As is to be expected, some of Stodart’s solo audience are Magic Numbers fans, but some, she claims, have never heard of the band. She recently posted an ecstatic message on her website after her folk-tinged second album, Pieces, was compared to her country heroes Etta James and Judee Sill by Uncut magazine. “The general mood and vibe from those guys lingers on my consciousness all the time.”

Music was a constant presence in the Stodart household as the family moved from continent to continent, meaning that Michele is now a multi-instrumentalist (she played all of the many instruments on her first record).

You get the impression that the close-knittedness of the Stodart siblings is a result of this early upheaval.

“You basically don’t have any form of friendship or stable ground when you move so much,” reflects Michele. “But mum and dad were just trying to allow us to survive. It definitely makes you stronger.”

Michele Stodart Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Tuesday, September 27 7.30pm, £12, call 08452 938480