Brighton has a special place in Boy Kill Boy's heart. Not only is it a former home of singer Chris Peck, who studied for a degree in music and art here,but it is also the place where they finished writing their second album, The StarsAnd The Sea, which will be released later this year.

"We were writing some of the album in Cornwall in the middle of nowhere," says Chris.

"It was a full-on bleak time of year. I went down there on my own and went a bit nocturnal and a bit dark."

The decision to write in Cornwall had been a conscious choice to get out of London and its distractions. But when the rest of the band and their managers got down there the decision was made to get out of the cottage and find somewhere else to write.

"It all got a bit difficult - everyone was infected by it," says Chris.

"We said we wanted to go to Brighton instead, so we managed to hire a little place by the Marina and rehearsed at Warner Studios in New England Street where The Kooks were writing their next album."

The time in Brighton was a complete contrast to the band's experience in Cornwall.

"We were hanging around with a couple of the Maccabees and saw The Eighties Matchbox B-line Disaster play at the Barfly," says Chris. "We are really finding ourselves a lot more with this record. We are really achieving what we wanted to get out of it.

"It has still got some pretty feisty numbers on it, it's not afraid if itself. The first album was all guns blazing but at the same time a bit like a bull in a china shop.

"When you get to your second album it is easy to take it too far the other way and have an introspective body of art. You've got to hold onto the roots of what you are doing, and I think we have really got it with this one."

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