The Mylo High Club

Mylo is knackered. Sitting in the lobby of the Fitzwilliam Hotel, the 25-year old native of the tiny Isle of Skye can barely lift the glass of water in front of him. He wants nothing more than to go to bed.

“I just got back from Brazil last night,” he says, stifling another yawn. “Before that we were in Canada, Germany, France, New York, Miami and South America. To be honest I don’t really know where I am anymore.”
This morning he was on a half-five flight out of Stansted. He’d flown in from Rio de Janeiro with just enough time to grab a fresh t-shirt before jetting off again. In Dublin, he’s spent the best part of the day on promotional duties for the BudRising festival, under the auspices of which he’ll appear as special guest to Basement Jaxx in Marlay Park. It’s a hectic lifestyle, though one he’s getting used to.
Since the release of his debut album, Destroy Rock And Roll, Mylo has become the talk of the dance scene. Through that record, and the sublime ‘Drop The Pressure’, the young Scot has singlehandedly revitalised an ailing genre with his quirky electronica.
It means that his second album is all the more anticipated.
“It’ll be next year at the earliest,” he reveals. “I haven’t really had the time to work on anything new. I think that’s the worst part of doing electronic production. If you tour as a live band you can’t write that successfully on the road. It would be really cool if I was just a singer- songwriter and could write on the tour bus. I’m quite jealous of bands that can do that and get a record done quickly.”
The next Mylo record, he says, will follow a similar pattern to the previous one, though he does hint that the next material he puts out will be under a different name.
“At the moment I’m in rehearsals with my band, and they’re going to take us in a different direction, I think,” he explains. “We got this V drum kit from Roland, which is really amazing. You can trigger samples out of a sampling kit and you can hit it like a real drum. It’s just fabulous. It means that, for the most part, the show will be completely live so we’ll be able to change around the way we do things every night.
“From now on it feels more like a band and if something comes out of the four of us jamming together, we’ll have to look at that. I’m not all that sure I’d feel comfortable putting it out though as a Mylo record. To me a Mylo record is something I do in my bedroom. So if something comes of this, which I hope it does, we’ll have to think of how we present it.”
For now though, the focus is on gigging. He’s booked up every weekend until September, with the time in between likely to be taken up with promotion. Destroy Rock And Roll has only just been released in France and Germany.
“I’m kind of dreaming of having a break and putting a down payment on a wee house in Essex or something like that,” he says as an animated look comes across his face. “Don’t ask me why Essex. I just kind of fancy it. I know it's got the connotations of being full of chavs but it’s got a bit of attitude. I quite like that. I got a feeling I’ll make some good music there. You’ll just have to wait and see!

Mylo plays support to Basement Jaxx at Marlay Park on August 20 as part of BudRising.