GA's euphoric new single, I Won't Kneel, is now available to stream in full on this very site (just click the play button in the top right corner).

The track is a blistering sneak preview from band's eagerly anticipated new studio album (due Feb 2010). It will be released on November 16th in the following formats:

CD Single
12"
Digital Track
itunes Single
STD Digital Single

The track features a scintillating vocal from SaintSaviour, who will be the live frontwoman for GA's upcoming shows.

"We've worked with a lot of legends over the years,” says Andy Cato. “Now we've found one ourselves. We've only done a couple of ‘Black Light Live’ warm-up gigs with her so far, but already I'm only ever asked one question. Who IS that girl?"

Hi Andy, how are you?
Fine thanks. I'm at Tom's house today. We're waiting for someone from the Observer newspaper, followed by Alan from The Rakes.

What's the Observer thing?
I believe it's an interview about Lovebox.

Were you as happy with Lovebox as Tom was?
Definitely. It was an amazing achievement really. If you include Dublin we got 50,000 people out and about that weekend. It's just incredible when you think of it in those terms. Especially when it's all come from a bunch of friends who've just tried to nail down that true Glastonbury-style festival spirit in the heart of London. We've got that spot on now. Lovebox isn't just about the music, it's about everything that goes on around it. I feel pretty proud of it.

Presumably the festival is here to stay now.
I think so. It is a real battle to establish an independent festival in a market where everyone's got far more money than you have, especially when you want to do something that's genuinely different and exciting. The first few years were really tough. But we've turned a real corner this year, both in terms of selling the London one out on that scale and also getting to the point where agents are phoning us up saying they want their bands to play. I think this is the point all the hard work and all the money we've lost over the years feels worthwhile.

That's great.
Yeah. Although we still managed to lose money again. But at least we lost less this time.

You really can't make money off something like that?
Well the site looked amazing, we had bits of New York streets going down one side of it and crazy camps in the trees. Plus we were charging £35 a ticket and you'd pay that to see one of the bands that were on the main stage, never mind all 16 of them. But we want to keep the price down, because it's about keeping it vibey and allowing people who live locally to come. We don't want it to be some sort of £90 picnic hamper extravaganza. So we will probably have to start looking for a bit of sponsorship to make the sums add up.

And why is Alan from The Rakes coming over today?
He's going to be doing the vocals for this cover of Madonna's 'Crazy For You' we're doing for Radio One. On the Thursday before Lovebox weekend we had one of our infamous all-nighters in the studio. The track went in a different direction, so we started to imagine more of a male vocal, like that old Cure tune, 'Close To Me'. If you take the lyrics in that way, they can actually be quite melancholy. So Alan's coming over today to sing it.

The Armada were in Japan last week, how was that?
It was a bit of a whirlwind to be honest. We'd already had a couple of madcap days with Lovebox and trying to finish a million things at Tom's studio and then it was straight off to Japan. We did a night flight and arrived in the daytime, so we tried to stay up and hang on in there to reset the body clock. That inevitably led to a few drinks which led to a big night out that went on slightly longer than was probably wise.

Had you been to Tokyo before?
Only once, for a day. Culturally it is like landing on Mars, which is brilliant cos there's very few places left in the world that are like that. So, yeah, the next day we had this long coach ride up into the mountains for the Fuji Rock festival which happens in a ski resort during the summer time. It was about a four hour journey up there - and it was great to see some of the amazing Japanese countryside. So then we arrived and it's an incredible site. It looks as big as Glastonbury. There must have been 100,000 people there.

How was the gig?
I'm pleased to say it was another triumph for the band. Because of the label problems we've had over the years, we've been pretty invisible in Japan throughout our career, but we were headlining this thing called the White Stage which was this amazing tree-lined amphitheatre. The thing was, the first half of our set

Hello Tom. How are you?
Yeah, I'm good. I've been working hard over the last couple of weeks. It's been a bit of a mad one, with Lovebox finally happening and 'Song 4 Mutya' coming out.

How was Lovebox?
I was over the moon with it. I thought it was the best one we've done by a million miles. There was quite a snotty review in the Standard that I was a bit annoyed about, but everyone else seemed to love it. There was just a really good vibe. Blondie were brilliant and the rest of the programme - all the side stages and everything - worked out perfectly. Well, apart from Sly And The Family Stone. He totally blew it. He stayed in his hotel room for most of the gig. Oh, and we had a bit of a heavy police presence, unfortunately.

Really?
Yeah, that was a bit of a disappointment. They called us in on Friday and said they'd had some sort of specific intelligence and they basically flooded the place with police. It was a bit of a shame. But when the Met Police tells you, you've just got to go with it. So there were a lot of uniforms on site. And plain clothes officers too. I think they were concerned there was going to be some kind of gang turf war or something. But the whole event was still really good. The feedback I got from just wandering around was really, really positive.

Did you sell enough tickets?
Yeah, we did. We hit the break even point last week, so we probably ended up making about eight quid from it. Actually the merchandise seemed to fly out of the place, which should help. I would urge anybody who's not bought one of the lovely Lovebox shopping bags to go and get it as a rival to the Anna Hindmarch "I'm not a plastic bag" one. Take a look at the bags here: http://transmissionstores.co.uk/love...

How was Groove Armada's set?
It was brilliant actually. Definitely a fitting close to the whole thing. 'Song 4 Mutya' was great. It was the first time it's really felt like a single when we've played it. Everyone was singing along, which is quite an unusual experience for us. You can't really sing along to acid bleeps.

What did you do afterwards?
I went out to The End for the after-party and had a bit of a large one. And then I woke up yesterday morning and realised me and Andy had a lot of work to do in the studio. So I was feeling a bit tender for that, but we got a lot done. We were working on our cover for Radio One and our stuff for Kylie.

Did you decide on a vocalist for your Radio One cover yet?
We haven't yet. As you know, we're doing Madonna's 'Crazy For You', but in a Groove Armada style. We're thinking it might be good to get a mumbly northern indie fella. So watch this space.

And how was the Dublin Lovebox?
Yeah, that was really good too. The weather was decent and the crowd were amazing. We'll definitely be back there next year.

So 'Song 4 Mutya' is out this week. It seems to be doing very well.
Absolutely. It made it to Number 13 last week on downloads alone, so we're hopeful it'll go Top 10 now that you can buy it on CD and vinyl.

It topped the airplay chart too.
Yeah, we were pretty made up about that.

And since we last spoke, you've been out to LA for a gig there.
That's right, at the Hollywood Bowl. That was pretty amazing. It was a fundraiser for KCRW which is a big public radio station out there. It's like the one credible station they have. We played before this very bizarre Mexican band called CafŽ Tacuba. I couldn't get my head around them at all. Something of a novelty act. But, yeah, we went on at about 8 o'clock when it was still light.

What sort of crowd was it?
It was actually quite a well-off looking crowd, producer types, sitting there in white slacks with their jumpers over their shoulders. And all the front rows were seated with waiter service. So we weren't holding out too much hope for the show, but it actually turned out to be a rea