Just a few minutes before getting on a train to Cork in preparation for their show that same night, Andy and Christy Leech from Le Boom are in high-spirits. Amid their current Europe and UK tour, the Navan hailing electronic duo are just coming back from a three day break, and excited to get back on stage.

“I would say,” Christy starts, “last week and the week before were the best weeks of my life, I swear to God, I’m not saying that lightly. I’ve loved getting up every morning, checking out what time is sound check, what time is the show at… I’ve loved sound checks!” he laughs. “I’ve loved every single part of it.”

On this tour, the guys have had the occasion to travel across Europe in a way they never had before – not only playing on festival stages, but on their very own headlining shows, showcasing both Christy’s infectious beats and Andy’s gripping spoken words performances. This international success is still something they have a little trouble getting used to.

“I still find it really hard to believe,” Andy ponders, “that someone from Glasgow heard the music, bought a ticket and just went. It just blows my mind.”

“Feeling it connect to other people,” Christy adds, a little starstruck still, “and having people want to come to our gigs, and flying over and fucking buying tickets – every single time we come onto the stage and look out to the audience, and you see, it’s not just the three or four of us up on the stage, there’s all these other people who came with their mates and all that – that still blows our minds every single fucking night. I don’t think we’re used to that in any way at all.”

That sort of humility is something you only see in artists who’ve never really cared how many people were listening, those who are making music for themselves. “I guess we’d probably be doing this even if there was no one in the audience,” Christy chuckles, “so it’s amazing that they come, and we’re privileged to do that, but if they weren’t, we’d still be doing the same thing ourselves at home.”

This love that the members of Le Boom share for smaller hometown gigs is very clear, and perhaps most visible in the way they’ve always prioritised smaller stages, like their 2022 nationwide Small Room tour, which was composed exclusively of secret location parties around Ireland.

All those gigs were also played on the floor rather than up a stage, so that the guys would be surrounded by the crowd completely. “When we were setting out on that tour,” Christy reminisces “I guess a huge part of the whole project was just energy, connection, and just creating a perky atmosphere and being part of that, rather than it being like, a show where you come to see these superstars, it’s not like that."

This kind of atmosphere is something that they’ve both tried their best to keep, even during their current, much bigger scale tour: “pretty much all of the show par, maybe one,” Andy explains, “were on the floor as well. Even though we were playing bigger rooms, we were actually fighting with the venues to let us actually set up on the floor. It’s kind of an encompassing feeling. I don’t think you could possibly be bored at any stage, ‘cause it’s like, even if you’re not into the tune, you’re literally getting spat on by the fella on the mic,” he laughs. “You can actually see the sweat falling at the back of his neck.”

The most surprising thing about Le Boom’s career, perhaps, has been the great success they’ve met in Spain, after their single ‘Friday Night’ hit the Spanish charts and then following with a string of major festivals in the country.

“We went back to Madrid in March,” Christy explains, “and Andy came out, and to be honest, before the show we were thinking, ‘do we even bring Andy? He’s gonna stand up and say a piece about people leaving Navan for Australia, how is this gonna resonate at all with people in Madrid?’ Most of them didn’t even speak English. And then he got up and did it, and the place went off, just as if we were playing it in Navan. It was crazy.”

Speaking about the surprise of their south European success, Andy tries to analyse: “One thing we always remark on when we’re there is the craic of the Spanish crowd is so similar to the craic that you find at an Irish gig.”

Amid such a successful international tour, and given that they only have released singles until now, it’s hard not to wonder what the guys might have in store next: “I think now the plan is to release a few more singles,” reveals Christy "but I really really would be so excited about the idea of, like, something a bit more fleshed out, and a project with ebbs and flows in it.”

“We'd be massively excited,” Andy agrees. “It’d be kind of a chunkier, meatier kind of piece whether it’s an EP or a full-length album, that would be brilliant.”

Le Boom are playing the last date of their The Night That Shook Us tour tonight in Limerick.