FEEDER's journey on their spring tour ends at the York Barbican on Thursday night, the tenth gig of a crammed fortnight.

"Well, being the last night, we usually throw in an extra song at the finale to end on a high," says Grant Nicholas, the Welsh band's frontman. "It's been a while since Feeder played York, probably at Fibbers, but I played Fibbers on my own a few years ago, and we wanted to do places like York, Keele and Folkstone on this tour, as it's important to do the smaller towns and cities we didn't do on last year's tour."

As last year, the focus will be on 2016's All Bright Electric, their ninth album and their seventh to make the Top Ten, giving Nicholas and Taka Hirose their highest chart position since 2008.

Ahead of the tour, Feeder lifted a third single off the album, Another Day On Earth, for which the band shot a video produced and directed by Sitcom Soldiers in the depths of Snowdonia. Nicholas was required to battle with the elements in one of the wildest, most untouched parts of Britain. "It was absolutely freezing, but that was the whole point: singing in this lonely place," he says.

"This was definitely the coldest and most demanding video I've ever done. It was shot in the beautiful surroundings of Snowdonia National Park in North Wales on a freezing January day. It was a cold and physically draining day, but at the same time enjoyable to be in such a spectacular place and with a great crew. It's kind of a message about how alone and isolated we can sometimes feel in this world which can take you to a dark and lonely place.”

Nicholas had to do "a bit of acting" in the video. "I'm not an actor and you quickly realise it's quite a difficult thing to do; you feel a bit of an idiot doing it!" he says. "We were going to have an actor in it, but that didn't happen, so it was just me, in a big fur hat, running around the mountains."

A further video has been issued since then, on March 17, for Paperweight. "This one's a bit more guitar driven, and we've gone for retro-style video that we made where we filmed Eskimo last year, done by the same filmmakers in Bolton, where they converted this big warehouse to make videos," says Nicholas. "We shot it there with a big old lens that used to be used for shows like Top Of The Pops and The Tube on Channel 4, so it's got more of an Eighties' feel to it."

In the four-year hiatus between Feeder albums, Nicholas decided to "take a bit of time out to work with other people". "That became a mini-album, and then a tour of Japan, and then it was time to get my head back inside Feeder's stuff again, but we were always going to come back," he says.

"I tend to write a lot anyway, but it was really good for me, for my head space, to go away and write my solo songs, then come back and writer better stuff than I was before for Feeder."

Feeder play York Barbican on Thursday, April 6, 8pm. Box office: 0844 854 2757 or at yorkbarbican.co.uk. On March 24, Feeder released Special Editions of their previous two albums, 2012's Generation Freakshow and 2010's Renegades, each supplemented with hard-to-find B-sides and bonus tracks, on Cooking Vinyl.