Two years after their spectacular rise, Scissors Sisters are about to re-enter planet pops atmosphere with a bang. Their sparkling new single, I Dont Feel Like Dancin, is set to contradict its title and cause dancefloor mayhem from Brooklyn to Brighton.

The song may sound like a party but the lyrics, as the title suggests, are resolutely downbeat, telling the tale of someone whod rather have a quiet evening in than go out and paint the town red. Surely not

Heres what happened, begins Ana Matronic. We were on tour for nearly two years, finishing in March 2005, though things only came to a complete stop after the V festival last August. During that time, most of our really big success happened while we were 3,000 miles away [in Britain]. When we finally came home to New York and tried to pick up the threads of our daily lives, it was like an astronaut re-entering the atmosphere from space. It had been so crazy and successful and amazing and colourful and fun it had been like New Years Eve every night but we needed about 365 New Years days to recover!

A quick recap: Scissor Sisters are Jake Shears (lead vox), Ana Matronic (vox), Babydaddy (bass, guitar, banjo, keyboards, technical guru), Del Marquis (guitars) and Paddy Boom (drums). They formed in New York in 2001.