“If we’d ever split up, it would probably have been due to ‘geographical differences’.”
IQ frontman Peter Nicholls is only half joking when he recounts the logistical headaches involved in keeping his band’s show on the road, and indeed in the studio, as they prepare to release their 10th album. He’s talking to us from his home near Manchester, a few hours after we’ve met his fellow founder member of the band, guitarist and producer Mike Holmes, 200‑odd miles away in London.
