Following on from their highly acclaimed debut album, 2008's It's Not Something It's Like Whatever, young Glasgow band Errors have recently returned with the exceptional new album, Come Down With Me and celebrate with a full Uk tour which hits Moles on Thursday, March 11.

The Guide spoke to drummer James Hamilton to find out more.

Can you tell us how you got into music and how Errors came about?

It wasn't until I watched the 1992 MTV MVA awards on Channel 4 and saw Nirvana performing Lithium, at which point I decided there and then on the spot that I wanted to play drums.

A year later my older brother started a punk band with a couple of his friends but couldn't find a drummer, so I joined. I spent the next decade always being in at least one band.

I never really had any big musical aspirations even as a teenager, I've just always loved playing.

The beginnings of Errors' forming was when Simon (Ward – guitars and keys) and Greg (Paterson – guitars) did a couple of songs together, then asked Stephen (Livingstone – guitars and keys) to join in with what they were doing.

I was in a band called Multiplies at the time and my friend Craig who's the label manager at Rock Action, gave me a copy of an early Errors demo.

I was suitably impressed and Multiplies asked them to support us at a show we were playing at the Art School.

They consisted of guitar, keyboard and laptops and were incredibly young and nervous but really impressive (Craig and Barry from Mogwai were at the show and were impressed enough to set about signing them).

So I got to know the guys through that, and they asked if I'd record some live drums for the first single, Hans Herman.

Errors then asked me to join them as a live drummer and full time member.

Do you think your hometown influenced your band's style/sound in anyway?

I think it's probably difficult to come from anywhere and not have it affect your aesthetic as a band whether it's your sound or outlook.

Glasgow is quite a schizophrenic kind of city – it's perpetually on the cusp of being a massive metropolitan culture centre, but at the same time it's a relatively small city. It's a strange mix of old, gothic architecture, dilapidated 70s and '80s failure and sparkly neon regeneration.

I guess that description could be applied to Errors' sound in a way.

Which vocalists and musicians do you admire?

As a band we have a pretty eclectic range of musical influences; it's difficult to pin down exactly what influences arise from where, but there's kind of a grey area of bands and musicians where all of our musical tastes overlap.

There are the obvious ones, like Mogwai who have been a huge influence on us, not just in the role as being our label and musically but as people as well.

There's obviously quite a post-rock influence in our sound, bands like Tortoise and Trans Am, the whole kind of more left-field of post-rock have been influential at least to a degree for us.

It's basically a big mess of what we listen to condensed.

How would you describe your music?

Post-this or that-core. Math-something. I find it difficult to sum our sound up because there's no conscious effort to sound any particular way.

We just write music and it comes out sounding the way it does.

I'm not pretentious enough to say that we're indefinable and genre-defying, it's probably just easier for a third party to sum up what the band sounds like than any of the members.

Can you tell us what you write about in your songs and your new album

Come Down With Me

?

Our songs aren't usually about anything specific; being an instrumental band gives us a lot of freedom to basically write and play whatever without having to explain too much.

Ideally, I'd like a song to mean whatever whoever listens to it feels like it means at the time.

We tend to record songs as they're written. We tend to re-write them. Then re-record them. Then jam them out in the studio live, decide what works and what doesn't, then re-record them again.

Then once we're happy with the way it sounds, we tend to completely re-record the whole thing.

Have you seen the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry can't open the sealed plastic packaging on his new GPRS and ends up just screaming and stamping on it? That's our recording process right there.

We recorded the album over a period of about nine months in our own studio in the east end of Glasgow.

Hardly any of the original ideas made it to the final record.

The finished album I think is a really great record, as a document of how the band sounds right now it's completely accurate and that's the most important thing, for it to be representative of the people making it.

Do you enjoy the touring process and how would you describe an Errors show?

I absolutely love touring, it's the greatest thing in the world.

You get to travel, visit cities and countries you might otherwise have never been to, meet loads of people, play shows and party and hang out with your friends every night.

Live we tend to go for more of the upbeat tracks, we've altered some of them to make them heavier and longer, so basically an Errors show in 2010 is geared towards making the audience dance and enjoy themselves.

We're aiming for nothing short of euphoria.

We've never been to Bath before, so be gentle with us. We're looking forward to it.

I just hope people enjoy the show, No pressure…

What does the rest of 2010 have in store for Errors?

After the UK tour we'll be going to Europe to play a load of dates, then hopefully keeping busy playing festivals over the summer with a view to play some shows further afield later in the year.

Basically, our plan is to tour as much as physically possible for the rest of the year.

Admission costs £8. For more details visit www.myspace.com/we areerrors.