"You just think 'Right, where are we going to go from here?' and you move on."

And that's certainly the case with Dodgy, hugely popular in the mid-90s and now back together with a vengeance, albeit through the saddest of circumstances.

Dodgy are playing this year's Guilfest (Stoke Park on July 4, 5 and 6), their first festival since Glastonbury 1997 when they went out on a high.

Bound to be in their memory, though, will be the late Andy Moore, the spur for their reunion.

"One of our friends was the lighting guy Andy who got a brain tumour last year. It was malignant. They chopped it out, but he was not going to get rid of it. It was terminal.

"We did a benefit gig for him in Manchester. Mathew (Priest, Dodgy's drummer) and I got together, and I spoke to Andy that night. He was going through chemo. It makes you realise how short life is, how you never know what is going to happen.

"And he said to me 'Your Dodgy days were the best days of my life.' They meant more to him than anything."

Sadly he died last October - on the morning of the band's first day back in the studio.

"But it was down to him that we got back together."
Over Dodgy's six-year rise to fame they released three albums and 12 top 40 singles, including three top 10s and the top five hit Good Enough, still a staple of the Radio 2 playlist.

In 1996 Dodgy sold out the Brixton Academy for three nights in a row and were awarded an unprecedented 90-minute Saturday evening slot on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

As Nigel says, when you look back at it now, you can see that it was part of a golden era for British music.

"We were trying to keep in the tradition of British pop which had a long tradition, certainly back to The Beatles in the 1960s.

"I loved the 1970s. My favourite year was 1979 when I was 13. They were just great records. I was a bit of a punk then, and the early 80s started off really promisingly."

But then the decade nose-dived with the New Romantics. It took the 1990s to turn things around with a renaissance of celebratory music - music that really celebrated British pop.

"I always felt that my job was to make people happy", Nigel says - and Dodgy certainly did.

"At the time it was really great", Nigel says - and he loves the fact that the band produced two modern classics with the songs Good Enough and Staying Out For The Summer.

Even better, Nigel managed to keep his feet on the ground: "I am not really good at parties. I never really liked my own birthday parties. I got quite embarrassed."

The band recently played Shepherd's Bush Empire ten years on: "There were so many people I hadn't seen for years, but I just don't like all that attention. It is not that it is an intrusion. I just don't feel comfortable with it and I will say stupid things."

Which maybe explains why Nigel stayed rooted during the Dodgy heyday. But it did all come to an end. Nigel left the band.

"I can't put my finger on it. Basically I had two children by 1997, and they were both young. I felt that there needed to be a bit of support in the way that the gigs were planned, but I just don't think that I vocalised that very well. We ended up arguing, and I choose my family over the band."

He spent the next ten years with his own projects and with the children. Now a convergence of events has brought Dodgy back together again.

Dodgy are third on the bill on the main stage on Guilfest Saturday. They will also be doing an acoustic set in the Unisonzone. Tickets on 08714240050.