BURY six piece The Travelling Band will be appearing at this year’s Glastonbury — for the third time.

“We’re honoured to do it,” says singer Adam Gorman. “I think we struck a chord with Mr Eavis when we won the Glastonbury New Talent competition and he keeps asking us back! I think we initially reminded him of some of the 60s vocal groups that were his favourites.”

The band are currently touring to support their new single Sundial, which was released last week.

“It was conceived in New York while we were recording the first album,” says Adam. “It was born out of an all-night jam — we spent a lot of time sitting on rooftops playing songs until the sun came up.”

The Travelling Band were formed in 2008 and soon after found themselves on a festival stage for the first time, at the Wychwood festival in Cheltenham where they will play the main stage this year.

“We’ve played Wychwood a couple of times now,” says Adam. “The first time we did it we’d only just got together — we’re regulars now.”

Debut album Under The Pavement was released the same year to largely positive reviews, and the band are playing tracks from their as-yet-unnamed second album at their live shows before its release this summer.

Pioneers of “Manchester Americana” (surely a collaboration with Bolton’s own “Lancashire Americana” favourite Andrea Glass must therefore be on the cards?), Adam says the bands sunny harmonies have taken o n a muscular edge during the recording of the new album.

“At the moment we’ve got a bit noisier and heavier over the last few months, but we still pride ourselves on getting the harmonies right, and there will be a few tender moments too,” he says .