Coyle himself has never been focussed on trying to sell records, he adds, although this can be a rocky path to follow.

“When you’re a musician you can spend most of your time trying to be an artist and trying to write or you can spend your time trying to market yourself,” he explains.

“It’s a difficult choice because if you don’t market yourself you don’t get known but also if you don’t work at your craft...

“I want on my gravestone, not that I’m having one, to be somebody who was involved in music and loved music.

“I’m still working at it and that’s why we’re so happy with the new album – because we think it’s some of the best things we’ve ever done.”

He was worried, he reveals, that at 47 he wouldn’t have the same energy for his craft as he did as a teenager struggling to get by in eighties Liverpool.

“You think ‘oh no, have I lost it now, am I jaded? Do I not have that love and passion for things that I had at 18, when I didn’t care where the next meal came from, it was just where was the next gig?’

“It sounds very idealistic but that’s how we were then and I’m glad to say there’s still a lot of that there now.

“Allegedly you’re meant to grow up but I just can’t do it.

“If you follow your heart you’ve just got to be who you are, and if that means you end up being immature all your life then tough.”

The Philharmonic Hall gig will be a mixture of the old favourites, such as The First Picture of You, along with material from the new album A Plug-in Called Nostalgia.

With Kelly living in Amsterdam and Coyle in France, they worked on it separately before coming together in the recording studio.

They describe the result as “subtle rebellion”.

“Because there’s nothing like it,” Coyle explains.

“ It’s full of layers of meaning.

“In our hearts we want to do something special and something new.

“No-one else could have done this album, it’s very much Lotus Eaters.”

LOTUS Eaters will be playing the Philharmonic Hall as part of the Summer Pops on Saturday, July 25.