Whether playing sell out gigs at Fabric or slightly more snug venues like Clockwork and The Social, this homegrown London dance outfit bring the party to any crowd. Recently heralded on Nuts.tv – yep they do have their own station now – by the ever-charismatic Danny McNamara, they’re regulars at the Another Kitchen night at Proud Galleries.

As a cross between Faithless and The Prodigy (though depending on your point of view this is not necessarily a compliment), this blend of electro-punk-breakbeat is defining the genre for the next generation.

Devil’s Gun are officially a boys only crew. They did have a girl vocalist alongside singer Jagga ‘the blagger’ Thompson but she and the team parted ways last year due to a clash in lifestyle and recreational preferences.

“Unfortunately her arms and legs fell off so she was unable to make it onto the stage, but apparently she’s moved on to bigger and better things like errrrm....” informs a helpfully cheeky Olly Goodman, writer and producer. Cohort on decks James ‘Jay’ Bird is a little more candid. “We just didn’t get on. It just wasn’t right for the band and live she was a bit like a cardboard cut out that sang flat.” Ouch indeed.

And there’s no plan to audition for new members, so my only chance of getting in the band would be to “turn into Gok Wan and make all the girlies get their bangers out for the band!”

Having slogged it out as musicians over several years the gang are now tighter than ever professionally and personally following the culling of said excess oestrogen - and an unfortunate studio break-in last year.

“We were thinking of changing our name to ‘God’s Gun’ to see if we could change our luck,” says Bird. “All my work from the last seven years was stolen on the back-up drive. It just forced us to write loads of new music. You have to work seriously hard for what you love doing.”

And love it they do. Work and play come as hard as one another. “Yes it’s been a long graft,” offers Goodman, “but nowadays in music I think you really need to prove you can do it yourself as the labels are much more picky about who they sign. It’s hard when you’re skint and having to live and make time to get to the studio but we’ve all scraped though with help from friends and loved ones. It does all pay off when you play an amazing show and everyone’s really into what you’re doing, it makes it all seem worthwhile. London wasn’t built in a day!”

Back on track for their impending album, their main problem now is the task of whittling down their current abundance of material “We have around 30 tracks to choose from so we’re really looking forward to getting the music out there but not looking forward to choosing which ones will be on it as they all deserve to see the light of day.”

Founding members Goodman and Bird met after the latter attended university in Bournemouth with the former’s older brother. Before then Bird freely admits he’d taken no interest in dance music at all. In fact he’d always slated it. “At school I was an indie kid listening to The Cure, Jane’s Addiction, Jesus Jones, Wonderstuff and The Chillies.”

Hooking up in 2005, by which time they’d acquired similar tastes, they just got to work. First track ‘London’s Calling’ took a long-winded three weeks to lay down. “Now we do tracks in one night!”

“I went through uni listening mainly to Detroit techno and nothing else,” says Bird. “My hero was definitely Jeff Mills at that point and without a doubt he was responsible for making me want to start writing music. Now I’ll give anything a listen. Everything I’ve ever heard is an influence whether it makes me think that is shit or it’s immense.”

Goodman agrees they all have very different influences and draw inspiration from everywhere. Thompson is well gay for J Dilla and MF Doom, keeping it rootsy like, and the obvious necessaries in Hendrix, Lep Zep etc. Goodman’s tastes range from Prince Charles and the City Beat Band to Dylan, via Michael Jackson to Roland Kirk.

Thompson’s first record was the classic intergalactic 80s rap ‘Woodpecker From Space’ by Video Kids. “Then I found Camden Market so it was GNR, Metallica, and The Levellers before I found the rave. So it was trance and dub then DNB raves at The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes then I went to Ibiza and was into house and electro, Daft Punk and ‘Jaxx, initially growing into a dirtier taste for the likes of Justice, Sebastian, Mr Oizo, Boys Noise and on and on.”

Fresh from playing Cornwall dates last week and nipping down to The Isle of Wight festival over the weekend, Devil’s Gun – though they’ve cut their festival teeth at previous Glastonburys and Electric Gardens and Loch Lomond - are excited about the rest of the summer’s gigs, looking forward to V Festival in particular.

“Best so far this year was the Oakley Jib Vid in Mayerhoffen, Austria,” says Thompson, “because I got a day snowboarding which is my favourite thing to do apart from writing music.”

As well as Devil’s Gun activity, Thompson actually features on tracks ‘Loud’ and ‘High As A Kite’ from fellow rapper Example’s latest mixtape, he is focused on the DG camp getting Example to return the favour and collab on the band’s track ‘Don’t Be Shy’.

He also had a cameo in the video to Example’s ‘Me and Mandy’ under the guise of a low-down, drug-dealing, yet loveable rogue. Something he is quite regularly recognised for due to his distinctively extensive and well kempt afro. Apparently it doesn’t get boring having people point at/want to talk about/actively touch your barnet. His patience is impressive but it seems the attention is more than welcome to the DG bad man… sorry, front man.

“Jagga is a low down hound! Listen to his lyrics in some tracks like ‘Shake It’ and you will understand!” cries Goodman. They’re all pretty wayward and probably best not to be left together unsupervised for long, but it does make for a good dynamic on stage. Thompson’s boisterousness borders on undiagnosed ADHD at times, which of course is brilliant for gigs and although there is a giddy Spaniel-esque harmlessness vibe to him, people should hide the breakables when he’s over for tea.

According to Bird you could live your whole life listening to Devil’s Gun. “There’s music for every moment as long as you live your life full tilt. So sell your soul to the Devil and come to a gig. You won’t be disappointed.”

Devil’s Gun play V Festival, Chelmsford on 17 August 2008.