Friendly Fires swap Paris for Pala … and a butterfly centre in St Albans

Dance-rockers lived it up at fashion parties, flew over Rio in a helicopter, then returned to the garage for follow-up to the Mercury-nominated Friendly FiresSee the feature as it appears in The Guide hereJack Savidge, the mild-mannered drummer of Friendly Fires, is red with chagrin. Last week someone on Twitter sent him a message: "Your band suck dick and you are fat." He's struggling to let it go. "I did some research on this guy," he says. "He had a MySpace for his really shit acoustic guitar...

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