London three-piece The Noisettes have lined up a UK tour to support their top-10 second album Wild Young Hearts.

Singer/bassist Shingai Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith and drummer Jamie Morrison were marked as rising stars after 2007 debut What’s The Time Mr Wolf? They will appear at Manchester Academy on March 3.

DO YOU GET BORED OF BEING ASKED WHY YOU WENT FROM BEING AN INDIE BAND ON THE FIRST ALBUM TO A POP ONE ON THE SECOND?

No, never bored! We don’t think we ever were an indie band, and we’re not really in any kind of genre. It’s been a blessing and also a curse. The blessing is musically we can incorporate loads of styles.

DID YOU FEEL CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHAT THE REACTION WOULD BE TO WILD YOUNG HEARTS?

No, we just make music. You can’t tailor a song to suit future fans who you haven’t met yet. You can’t go, ‘I know what teenage girls are going to want to hear in 2011, let’s write a song for that’. All you’ve got to do is write a song that you’ll still be happy to be singing in 2011 and not be bored of.

ARE YOU ALREADY THINKING AHEAD TO THE THIRD ALBUM AND THINKING OF HOW YOUR STYLE IS GOING TO DEVELOP?

Yeah, a band I really like at the moment are called Empire And The Sun and I just went crazy about their album, Walking On A Dream. I listened to it so much for about six weeks that I couldn’t listen to it after. In the last week, though, I’ve gone back to it. I think they are people who just love making great pop music, which is very inspiring.

When I go see a band like Massive Attack and Portishead, these are people that just love touring when they have a new record out. I look to these bands for inspiration rather than the indie quagmire.

DO YOU FIND IT STRANGE THAT PEOPLE NOW LOOK UP TO YOU?

Yeah definitely! Unless you’ve got a head the size of a watermelon, you definitely find that a humbling experience. I’m from a big African family and my mum always helps me to keep my feet on the ground and makes sure I can still laugh at myself. I HOW IMPORTANT IS PLAYING LIVE TO THE NOISETTES?

It’s so important. You’re truly in the moment and you’re partly taking some responsibility and involvement in a moment which people might not ever forget in their lives.

It could be a turning point. You’ve got to remember that out in the audience it might be someone’s first gig, it could be that someone has just split up with their boyfriend and wants cheering up —you never know what you’re responsible for.