The Enemy deny second album fear

By Damian Jones
Newsbeat reporter

Andy Hopkins said the band will take their time over their second album

The Enemy have said they are not feeling the pressure as they prepare to head into the studio to record their second album.

The Coventry trio, who wrapped up their debut album We'll Live And Die In These Towns at Reading and Leeds, say they have over 30 songs to choose from.

Their debut shot straight to Number One when it was released in 2007.

"Everybody is saying this album will be difficult but it's not, it's exactly the same," said bassist Andy Hopkins.

Taking time

He went on: "There's bands that take 20 years to release their first album. We were only together a few months before we released our first album.

"It's not a difficult album if you can write albums and we can. Hopefully everyone will like it."

We don't want to set a date and rush the new album The Enemy bassist Andy Hopkins

Despite writing so many songs, Andy warned that the Coventry trio will be taking time over the follow-up to We'll Live And Die In These Towns.

"We don't want to set a date and rush it," he said. "Whenever we're happy with it we will release it. We're hoping it will be out sometime next year but we'll have to wait and see."

He also said at this stage it is too early to determine how their second record will sound.

"We don't know what it is going to be like yet and to be honest we don't want to pigeonhole ourselves," Andy said.

"If we wanted to make a reggae album we could. Obviously we're not going to do that but if we wanted to we could."

London residency

The band have scored a string of top 20 hits and their debut has already gone platinum.

Of the new material, Andy said: "We've got literally about 30 tunes. We're picking the best of them at the minute but we keep writing more," he explained.

"We've played a couple of new songs live. We played one at the Astoria called Sing When You're In Love (Sing When You're Out Of Love).

The Enemy have played most of the summer festivals in 2008

"We've got another song we're hoping to put on the album called Don't Break The Red Tape which we played at Reading and wanted to play at Leeds but we ran out of time. That one is a more or less definite to get on the album."

Over the last year the trio have staged a six night residency at the London Astoria, headlined two nights at Coventry's Rioch Arena and played a host of summer festivals including Glastonbury, T In The Park and Reading And Leeds.

"This last year has been dead busy and Reading and Leeds were the last gigs of the whole album," Andy added. "I'm just glad everything ended on a high note."