WITH a second album under their belts, Rizzle Kicks are about to embark on their biggest tour to date that makes a sold-out stop at the O2 Academy Bournemouth on Monday night.

24Seven discovers why hitting the road will always be their first love.

They are, after all, just about to play their biggest-ever tour, which visits 21 cities and towns all over the country.

“We’ve done really well to sell the tour as quickly as we have done,” says 22-year-old Jordan ‘Rizzle’ Stephens.

“We’ve sold well all over the country, and I think there’s been a wave of difficulty and decline for some artists in the past year. People aren’t buying tickets as much as they used to. So yeah, we’re really excited and pleased.”

To mark the achievement, they’ve added a saxophone player and DJ to their live band and the stage design will be more elaborate than the ‘boring ramp’ they had last time.

“There’ll be more colour in the backgrounds, platforms, loads of stuff,” he continues.

“There are going to be a lot of fans who’ve seen us before and we don’t want to make it the same for them.”

To prepare for the tour, the live band, which features Stephens’ dad Herman on bass, rehearsed for a couple of weeks before Jordan and his much quieter bandmate Harley Alexander-Sule joined them. “They find it easier to begin with if we’re not there, then we go in and add our bit,” says Stephens.

The duo formed when the pair, already friends from school in Brighton, attended the BRIT school in south London, an establishment that famously boasts Adele, Jessie J and Amy Winehouse as former students.

The pair signed to Island Records and got to work on their debut album, Stereo Typical, with a little help from, among others, Norman ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook.

That debut, released in late 2011, spawned six singles, including Mama Do The Hump and Down With The Trumpets, eventually going on to sell around 300,000 copies.

When it came time to record their second album, last year’s Roaring 20s, they again teamed up with Fatboy Slim. Touring for now remains their sole focus, and they can’t wait to get back on the road.