Scotland's hottest new band Kassidy have spent the last nine months living in their dingy rehearsal studio.
Glasgow alt-rockers Barrie James O'Neill, Lewis Andrew, Hamish Fingland and Chris Potter seem to have found a novel way to beat the credit crunch while spending as much time in each other's company as possible.
Rather than lavish their advance on expensive studio sessions and buying property, the lads live in their own recording studio which doubles as their crash pad. And the band, who are signed to major label Vertigo, insist they couldn't be happier - even if four twenty-something lads living the musicians' dream in their own home studio does spell squalor.
The four-piece, who all play guitar and sing, have been making waves recently with a sound that has been compared to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
And with their long hair, beards and retro style, it's only a few minutes after stepping into their studio in the city's south side that I realise I could have stepped back in time, to California's Laurel Canyon and the birthplace of Southern rock.
On the walls are posters of their posthumous idols, including the late and legendary Jim Morrison of The Doors and John Lennon, as well as the Japan national flag.
Piles of clothing are strewn on the floor, walls are scrawled with graffiti and it would be the perfect place, if there is such a thing, to have a bad acid trip.
The only things missing from the illusion of the California of yesteryear are a visit from Jeff Bridges's character The Dude from the Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski, and the shadow of swaying palm trees against the makeshift curtains that cover every window. Trouble is, these guys welcome natural light as much as Bram Stoker's finest fictional character.
As such, their rehearsal space is a dark and cluttered room with microphones, amps and a hotchpotch of souvenirs collected during their travels, including a Lollipop person's Stop sign and some of the mirrors used in the video to their new single Stray Cat, out this week.
"The mirrors were nabbed for sentimental reasons," Barrie said. "We have Chris's granny's couch in the corner of the rehearsal space. We don't really have a living room."
The former Victorian stable was converted in 1980 into a recording studio which was at the heart of the Scottish music scene - laying down tracks by the likes of Primal Scream, Texas, Wet Wet Wet, Simple Minds, Big Country and Altered Images.
lewis, whose father works in the music industry, explained: "The old studio has an amazing history. I used to come here as a child and it was a dream to rehearse here. It turned out the owners were planning on moving studios so, when they announced they were moving out, we offered to take it and pay rent.
"There are four bedrooms, a shower, a bathroom and the live practice room. That's all we need."
Chris added: "In some ways, the studio is different from most homes. Because it was a place of business before, it has electric hand-dryers. We all live together and if someone gets an idea for a song, we can come into the next room where we practise and try out the song.
"When we moved in, we all stayed here and didn't go out for ages. Our body clocks changed. We didn't know if it was daytime or night-time, and it became a different lifestyle which we all shared."
Only during a tour around their property can one understand the havoc young males can wreak upon their domestic habitat.
Hamish points to a black and white photo pasted to a door - the climactic image of Paul Newman and Robert Redford's characters in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - as the two outlaws charge towards soldiers of the Bolivian army and certain death.
The film inspired the band's name, which they were forced to change from Cassidy to avoid any problems with the gun-toting rapper of the same name.
And when I compliment the boys on the lack of mould in the kitchen, it turns out this is because they have invested in bulk plastic cutlery and plates.
This enables them to avoid washing up, probably just as well since housekeeping appears to be a common phobia. "We started off with crockery," Chris laughed. "But nobody was doing the dishes so we switched to plastic. You can buy a hundred million plates and a hundred million polystyrene cups for pennies. So we go to Tesco and buy that stuff."
Lewis added: "When we started off with real plates, ants came along because there was no washing of the dishes being done. This seemed a perfect solution."
A further inspection of the bedrooms reveals Kassidy believe hygiene has something to do with molecular science.
Hamish appears the more housetrained of the bunch and I only comment on this having walked into his room at the end of the tour, shocked at the sight of uncluttered floor space.
"It's funny," he admitted. "Because this was a recording studio, Lewis is in the control room, Barrie is in the drum room, I'm in an office and Chris is in the games room."