Said soon to be bigger than 'Coldplay' is an intimidating prediction to live up to, but 'Kubb' have definitely got the credentials and the talent to go the whole way. Musically, the guys in the band have been learning their trade for years and there's nothing plastic or manufactured about this lot. The frontman, Harry Collier, has a unique, sultry voice guaranteed to collect thousands of female fans and their hearts.
With recent performances on 'CD:UK' and 'Popworld' and a nomination for Channel 4's Best New Band For 2006 award at this year's Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party, 'Kubb' look set to dominate the charts.

Tell us about the new single, 'Wicked Soul'.
It's not really very profound, it's just really about coming home in the evening and getting it on with your girlfriend. Come home and shagging your missus, basically.

What about the significance of the album title, Mother?
Both my parents are born-again Christians. And it's kind of like the Divine mother but has nothing to do with Christianity, it's more like a pagan device. 'Cause the Divine feminine is non-existent in Christianity, the main female figure is the Virgin Mary, I mean a desexualised woman. That's bullshit. It's all to do with making people guilty about their sexuality and that's what Christianity seems to be all about. I was brought up a Christian and I've got a hefty helping of neurotic sexual guilt as a result, but I'm in the process of rejecting all that and finding my own way. I love my parents and I don't begrudge anything they did in bringing me up, they did a great job, I think, but I do resent that whole Church issue.

What's the best gig you've played?
There's been a few really good ones for different reasons. The biggest one we've done was a festival in Newquay. I grew up in Tobago, but I moved to Cornwall when I was 18, and lived there for 10 years. Going back a while, I was in a band called 'Rootjoose', but we lost our record deal. So I was really nervous. But it was a big gig, there was about 3,000 people, the sun was setting over their heads and it was beautiful. To be back in Cornwall, with the crew for the gig, like the sound engineer, who I knew from my 'Rootjoose' days and loads of old friends there, was great.

Then we did one last week at 'Fibbers' in York, and that was the best one because it's the best we've ever played. And the night before that was Middlesborough, which apparently was a shithole, but 1,000 people came and we were playing to loads and they were all into it, so that was great as well because it was completely unexpected.

What's the next gig you're doing?
We're doing 'CD:UK' on Saturday and straight after we're driving to Plymouth. 'CD:UK' is mainstream, but we have to do that because we need to sell some records so we can make another album. So I'm really nervous about the performance of that. You know Radio 1 have B-listed us, but they've also said if we don't go top 15 or top 20 we won't list any more of your songs, so that's pressure and you want to keep the band going. It's only music at the end of the day, it's only a song, it's not like I'm saving lives or anything.

What about the inspiration for your songs?
Just life. My life. I've got some co-writers that I write with, a couple of mates, Ben and Jeff, so it's all of our lives really. Like the song I wrote about breaking up with someone and he wrote it about getting over alcoholism. It's all the same words, it all means the same thing.

How did 'Kubb' form?
I had a load of songs written and Mercury offered me a development deal and it's really just mates, mates and mates of mates. It worked out like that. We all get on really well. I started the band and I'm the singer, so it's like I'm the frontman because people know me, at the moment. But that's going to change. If we become successful then we'll be all be known.

What are your plans and hopes for the future?
My hopes go as far into the future as a second album. I'd really like to make a good second album and write it with the band. I've got loads of ideas but nothing's been put into a song. I've got no ideas for lyrics, but loads of ideas for music. I don't want a number one, not yet. Not now. It's too much too soon, where do you go from there? Things that build slow last longer. If I was in a manufactured pop band I would want it to die. You know, if I was in 'Girls Aloud' – they're just beautiful and think that's all they need, it's all so banal, it's just about how much they can make. It's horseshit.

Who do you admire musically?
Chet Baker. Jeff Buckley. Frank Zappa, he's my all-time favourite. Joni Mitchell is amazing. There's loads. Kate Bush, but her latest single is disappointing. I loved Kate Bush, especially the 'Sensual World' album. Her latest single sounds a bit like she's crazy. I still love her, though. I listen a lot to dancehall. 'The B52s' I listen to, their 'Cosmic Thing' album, just because it reminds me of being 19 again. I heard that quite late when it was released and it reminds me of skiving off from college in Cornwall.

What do you make about people saying you're the new 'Coldplay'?
I don't care. People have been saying we're the new all kinds of things. The new 'Coldplay', the new 'Keane', the new 'Muse', but less goth. 'Radiohead', but more something or other. All those bands I quite like, but I don't think we are any of those things. If people need to have something for reference they're not going to stop, whatever I think about it.

What were you doing before you were signed?
I'd given up doing music. I've been signing on doing music for 10 years, as skint as a twat. I'd given up. I thought, f**k this, I'm going to go and drive a bus and I phoned up the bus company. I was working as a waiter and then Rollo (Dido's brother) came in for a meal and I had to sing happy birthday and he said come round to the studio and I met Dan, who I wrote the album with. I'm still taking all this with a pinch of salt. I think that gives me the energy, that stops me worrying.

What about the name 'Kubb'?
Doesn't mean anything. I think I said I like 'Kubb', but I was thinking C-U-B. And this was at the end of a four-day process where everyone was saying what about this, what about that, oh, that's shit I hate that, 'Kubb' was the first thing that no one said 'I hate it'. It was very hard. And no one cares about the name anyway. Look at 'Coldplay', what kind of a name is that? Or 'Keane'. 'Keane' is a particularly bad name, but who gives a f**k if their music's good?

'Kubb's new single, 'Wicked Soul', is out now and the album, 'Mother', is released on 14 November. Listen to music, watch videos and get to know 'Kubb' better on their official website, www.kubbmusic.co.uk.