The Mystery Jets have come a long way from playing around on Eel Pie Island and releasing their debut album a decade ago.

This summer the band will support Mumford and Sons at one of the capital’s biggest festivals, Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park and with a crowd of up to 110,000 people, it will be one of the biggest gigs of their lives.

Guitarist William Rees told us: “We can’t wait. It is going to be a great date, we’re very much looking forward to it.

“I think that’s always an exciting thing when you are playing a big stage in a place like Hyde Park. It’ll be up there with the biggest.”

With the July 8 show several months away, he said the band were excited to get out there and play.

He said: “It is just pure excitement at this stage although it will probably turn in to nerves a little nearer the time. As we’re climbing the ramp to the stage, that will be a bit nervous I imagine.”

And while it is a massive show, the boys will be treating it like any other.

William said: “In essence, it’s the same really. A gig is a gig.

“There are lots of other things you can get into when you play big concerts but because we are supporting and it is not our own headline show, things like pyrotechnics and suspending people off wires and flying them into the crowd isn’t something we’re going to get into just yet.”

Earlier this year, The Mystery Jets released their fifth album Curve of the Earth. It was their first record in three years and has been rapturously received.

William said: “If I’m honest, for me, I think it’s the best album we’ve made. I think it says everything we have been trying to say on a 45 minute album.

“We have gotten closer and closer to being able to do that so I am really over the moon with how it has turned out. We spent a long time working on it, about three years, so I think having faith in the project and sticking to our guns and not rushing it really turned out to work in our favour.”

The record saw them move to their own studio, a disused button factory in north west London, which William said helped make the album stronger.

He said: “It kind of turned out to be the best thing for us, really, because it meant we could work day and night and take as long as we want until we were happy with the results. That was a key factor in shaping the album.”

While the band has now moved north of the river, their roots are still very much in south London.

William said: “The band kind of got together in Twickenham, we used to rehearse on Eel Pie Island.

“We spent years and years in our teenage years and early twenties making music there and having fun on boats in the river and drinking in pubs – or trying to drink in pubs.

“The area is part of my adolescence, really, and I’m incredibly fond of it.”

He added: “We do often go back. Blaine’s dad, Henry, lives on Eel Pie so we often go there for the afternoons and write lyrics and stuff. It is a big part of the band’s history.”

Mystery Jets are supporting Mumford & Sons at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park on 8 July. Go to bst-hydepark.com 

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