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INDIE stars Django Django have promised to stick to the home recording techniques they used to record their Mercury- nominated debut album.

The Scottish outfit’s self-titled long player was made for just £90 in their drummer’s own bedroom.

The four-piece – drummer and producer Dave Maclean, singer and guitarist Vincent Neff, bassist Jimmy Dixon and synth-player Tommy Grace – used household items such as scrubbing brushes and aerosol cans.

Django Django insist they won’t break the bank to record their follow-up record, despite enjoying critical acclaim and sell-out shows, and plan to use whatever household items are at hand to get the sounds they are looking for.

Tommy said: “We don’t need that much. We are quite self-sufficient. It is probably a throwback from being at art college where we had to be self-sufficient and work within our own means. We do the production and sleeve designs ourselves.

“We’ll start playing something then look around to see what we can use to make a sound we have in our head.

“It’s about keeping things fresh and trying to get something immediate. Once we start recording, we’ll see what’s lying around that we can hit.”

He added: “The first album was solely written and recorded in David’s flat.

“That is the coolest thing about modern digital technology.

“If we were around 30 years ago, we would have been in a recording studio but we would have been on the clock and would never have had the time that we were able to put into the album. Now that we can produce stuff at home, it gives us a time cushion to try things out and muck about.

“We did plenty of that. It took ages to make and that was partly also because we didn’t know what we were doing. It was a big learning curve for us.”

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Django Django formed at Edinburgh College of Art before moving to London.

They added a Q Award for Best New Band to their CV last year, having triumphed over other nominees Alabama Shakes, Alt-J, Lianne La Havas and Frank Ocean.

“We were very happy to get the Q Award because I grew up reading Q magazine,” Dave said. “It feels like the hard work has been worth it when you are acknowledged as the best new band of the year. That’s a big thing for us.”

He added: “While we were at art college, it was difficult to start a band because there was too much fun happening.

“We needed to leave Edinburgh and move to London to get that kick up the

a*** that we needed.”

Tommy added: “We could save even more money recording our songs here than if we lived in Glasgow. But we have wives and girlfriends in London so we are stuck here for the near future.”

Django Django are in rehearsals, as they prepare to headline the NME Awards tour.

The only Scottish date is at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on February 11, with a thrilling line-up that includes Last Shadow Puppets co-frontman Miles Kane, London rockers Palma Violets and newcomers Peace,

a quartet from Birmingham.

“The NME awards tour is daunting,” Tommy said. “When we saw the bill and that we were headlining, we thought that we had to step up because there will be pressure on us to be worthy headliners.

“Take someone like Miles Kane, who has played in so many great bands. We are relative newcomers with one album under our belts.”

The Glasgow NME show will be the first chance to see Django Django in Scotland since a tour in October that included a homecoming date at Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms.

Tommy said: “That was a cracker, a really good gig. It was a homecoming for the band because we were based at the art college before we came down to London.

“It was a really good gig to play and it was great to see friends and family there.”

Following the NME Awards shows, Django Django will head to America for a tour there in the hope of capitalising on the Mercury nomination garnered for their debut album.

“It is going to be good,” Tommy added. “The cool thing about having a Facebook page is that it enables people from all over the world to find out about us.

“We’re going to Mexico later in October.

“It is great to see how the internet opens up and puts everyone on your doorstep.”

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They plan to start recording the new album in April on their return from the US dates. “This album will be quicker,” Tommy added. “Before, when we were doing the first album, we were trying to work out how a microphone works or how to make a guitar sound good.

“Now we understand that. It is still going to be self-produced but we may get an engineer in to help us speed things up, someone who knows how to mic up a drum kit. With the first album, we never once had an entire drum kit to work with.”

The band admit they have enjoyed increased traffic to their website since the release of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Django Unchained.

Tommy said: “There are a lot of bad ‘Django Django Unchained’ jokes. When we heard Tarantino was remaking the Django movies we thought that was fun.

“Dave had an obscure rave record called Son Of Django, named after one of the original Django movies.

“So things have come full circle with the Tarantino movie. There are people logging on to check us out after seeing the movie and we are getting extra mentions on Twitter from people looking for the film.

“We have obviously been around longer than the movie but we are big fans of Tarantino’s work.

“It would have been nice if he picked a song of ours for the soundtrack because his choice of music is always impeccable. Maybe we’ll get our chance on the sequel.”