












Though he thinks Ready For The Weekend is his best song to date, he isn't confident he'll add to his growing string of No.1 hits, which include I'm Not Alone and DanceWiv Me on which he featured alongside Dizzee Rascal.

"My single Ready For The Weekend doesn't contain the poppy trance sound that everybody seems to be doing at the moment," Calvin told me. "I don't like to be boring. That's my No.1 role in music. Not in life. But in music."

Meanwhile, he has called on dance music's biggest stars to get their fingers out and produce more hit singles to help the flagging dance scene.

Calvin said: "In commercial terms, there is not enough dance music to maintain any sort of scene of any value or worth.

"There is so much amazing underground dance music that is coming out every day that is never going to be played on the radio.

"It's good noise but as far as commerical dance music goes, it has been bad for the last five or six years. It's the reason the Brits dropped the dance category.

"The same acts were being nominated year after year, like Basement Jaxx. The saddest thing in the world is that people aren't making straightforward dance music any more.

"I just wish the bigger artists weren't so lazy. There are so many people capable of making massive tunes. It's up to them to sustain the scene they created.

" Too many of them make a few big tunes then settle into a DJing thing. It's not like they should feel obliged to make songs. But you've got to have these tunes to keep the underground music alive as well.

"Commercial dance music is a gateway for people to get into dance music they wouldn't hear on commerical radio.

"Why would you let the current commercial dance acts get away with making these terrible songs that get in the charts like it is a true representation of dance music which it isn't."

Fans will be able to catch Calvin when he performs at The Edge festival, with a gig at HMV Picture House in Edinburgh on August 10.

Calvin has also collaborated with Dizzee on the rapper's next single, Holiday, but is determined to concentrate on his own album, which is released in September, rather than accept further offers to collaborate.

To boost sales and make the experience of owning the Ready For TheWeekend album a more enjoyable experience for fans, his coupon doesn't feature on the sleeve.

Calvin said: "I'll be working with Katy Perry in December, but I'm concentrating on the album.

"I decided to put a pretty girl on the front instead of me, thinking that if I was going to be looking at an album cover for the next year or so, it would be better if people were looking at a more attractive face than myself.''