With the release of their highly-acclaimed third album, Science and Nature, earlier this year, The Bluetones are back in the public eye. Constant touring, coupled with high-profile festival appearances at T In The Park and The Carling Weekender in Reading and Leeds during the summer helped of course.

The band also staged a special show for fans and invited guests at Skyscrape which is nextdoor to the Millennium Dome which was filmed for broadcast by Japan's NHK television channel which boats some 11 million veiwers.

During October The Bluetones are back on tour again which brings them back to Oxford's Brookes University on Saturday.

It's one date on the longest tours they've done this year, says Adam Devlin. "Most of our recent tours have been seven or eight dates, this one goes over three or four weeks. A proper tour." "A single, Mudslide, will be coming out to coincide with the tour, which will feature new B-sides. One of which might be a cover of Frank Sinatra's That's Life," he adds. Mudslide is the third single from Science and Nature an album the band is very happy with. "We feel it's been received a lot better than Return to the Last Chance Saloon," Adam says. Following the disappearance of A&M Records, who were 'overseeing' The Bluetones' own label Superior Quality, they've continued to run it as a genuinely independent company.

"Mover's debut album is due out soon," says Adam, slipping on his record mogul hat. "There's a new single, Smoulder, from King Adora, and our single, Mudslide, of course.

"After the UK tour, we're heading off to Japan for a Superior Quality tour with Mover. Then we're working on a new album for next year. That's our life, man!" he added. "The Bluetones are fairly easy going, we're generally happy to roll along with whatever's going on. We're not one of those bands who formed from the small ads, we're buddies, we've known each other forever," Adam says.

They started their career with an appearance on one of the early Fierce Panda six-band double EP packages. The title of their track was pretty prophetic. It was called Bluetonic Return to Splendour.