‘We rush-released it for Christmas 1996 and it only got to No 17. But over the years it’s become the song people connect with most’
Chasing Rainbows was written on tour, which was unusual for us because we weren’t the kind of band who spent downtime on a tour bus writing new material. We much preferred to be out exploring a city. But we’d just done a big tour of Europe, had been away for weeks, and were feeling really homesick.