The Vamps speak ahead of Birmingham gig

Yet since 2012 they’ve swept the board at the BBC Radio One Teen Awards, had a gold-selling album with their 2014 debut, Meet The Vamps, supported McFly, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and The Wanted and now they’re headlining their own UK Arena tour.

They’ll bring their Wake Up! tour to Birmingham’s Genting Arena tonight and fans can look forward to Bradley, James, Connor and Tristan playing their biggest hits – as well as songs from their forthcoming record, Night And Day.

There’s every chance the new record will head in a dance-ier direction than Meet The Vamps or Wake Up.

After all, recent single All Night, with Matoma, hinted at that.

James says: “We’re not trying to make a dance album, but it’s a bit more dance-y than anything we’ve done before; it’s quite atmospheric.

“We’ve tried to blend in a dance drop with a singer-songwriter verses, so it’s much more like a blend of genre. It’s about the nostalgia of spending time with a girl and you’re up and you can’t sleep and you wish that you were with her.”

Brad adds: “In the verses especially it goes more in depth in terms of speaking about someone who had essentially pulled you back from a bit of a rubbish place. You get all of that depth in the verse which is nice. Then the chorus is this big sing-along; it almost sounds like these kids singing.”

The band get a real high from releasing new music and hope that fans will dig the new record.

Brad said: “I think the most exciting thing is people don’t see us for like 6 months, we’ll disappear and people will be like ‘oh what are The Vamps doing?’ But for us, we never really stop. We haven’t stopped in about four years because we write an album then we’ll release it then we’ll tour and whilst we’re touring we’ll be writing a new one.

“Having spent all this time and put all this hard work, heart, soul and effort into these songs and then being given the opportunity to release them is really cool because it captures a period of time. We’ll look back on the first album and second album and it’s really nostalgic and you can hear it in the songs too, because you know, all we listen to is ourselves (laughs).”