HADOUKEN! smashed it at the Reading festival recently with one reviewer describing a scene of "pandemonium" as "a stampede of teenagers descend like wildebeest on the tent, the most up-for-it Friday morning crowd in festival memory. It turns out Hadouken! are massive - who knew?"

Well millions, given that their video for 'That Boy That Girl' has reached over 4.7 m views on YouTube.

Other hints were their sold-out UK tour in April, touring with Example and Professor Green, remixing for Plan B and Bloc Party. They're also gearing up to release their third studio album next year on Ministry of Sound Recordings.

With the Londoners heading to Dunfermline on Saturday, founder and vocalist James Smith has been talking to the Press about their success.

"The Reading Festival was great. We were really lucky. We played quite early in the day because we were a last minute booking when a couple of American band's pulled out but we managed to get a really sizeable crowd," said James (27).

"Even the NME who haven't liked us for a long time were quite complimentary about it. You know you're doing something right when you've got your worst enemy praising you."

What's their problem anyway?

"It's classic for them to hype up a band and then knock them down. By this point we've got more followers on Twitter than buy their magazine weekly so it's not really a problem. We just get on with it and we moved on the positives."

James takes pleasure from the way their fans can interact directly with the band via social media.

"That's the beauty of it. It makes it much more democratic using the internet. People will like you and subscribe to you on the social networks.

"If they don't like you any more they can move on. It keeps the fan base pure and everybody just having a good time. It's all about being positive really. We've got plenty of people who are into it so it doesn't really matter what others say."

James spoke about the band's beginnings in 2006. "We just formed a band like any other person does. You want to make music and have fun with your friends.

"It spiralled a little bit. It got much bigger and within six months we were touring the country.

"We got signed to record label so we were lucky in that sense but we had to graft and we had to get out on the road and learn our trade. You've just got to do it like that really.

"We just do what we want to do. We just do what comes naturally. It's for other people to decide what they want to call it.

"We don't think about it too consciously. We just make the music we want to make. The influences are pretty obvious. For us, it's The Prodigy or Pendulum or people like that."

On joining the Ministry of Sound, James said, "We still have to work. As soon as you sign to a label it's not your end goal, that's the beginning for us.

"That's when you've got to put in the graft. You've got to make sure the songs are as good as they can be. You've got to go out there and smash every show to build the fan-base and make sure it's always growing not shrinking.

"You've got to go out and promote it and feel good about it. It's not a time for us to sit back. It's time to get in and graft. It's my dream so I'm not going to take it for granted."

On the evolution of their sound since 2006, James said, "We're quite comfortable in our sound now. When we started out we had to experiment a little bit and work out who we wanted to be but now when we go out there and see people having a good time that's comfort enough.

"And it's about time we got back up to Scotland because it's been 18 months which is far too long. A lot of the time on the internet we've got Scottish fans asking 'When are you coming back up?' "It can be embarrassing because we don't always get to decide where we play. It's up to a promoter or our booking agent but finally we're coming back up and we're looking forward to it.

"It's always a big party on the road. We go out there and everyone's having a good time every night. We can feed off that and we can see which tunes are going down the best and work out which one is going to be the next single or whatever.

"That shapes our sound. It's vindication for what you do to get out there and play to people.

The recent single 'Bad Signal' deals with love in the Facebook era. "It's almost like a modern romance or a heartbreak story. It's set in that modern way.

Teenagers especially and even my generation we live our lives on-line and everything you see is a Facebook update.

"There's morality issues but it's the way the world's going. I just think don't try and fight it, embrace it. Even for bands, my persona on-line, I live a less private life now because that's a way I can get out there and build our fan-base.

"Everybody wants to know what you're doing so I just embrace it. At the end of the day it's not like I'm going to be murdered or anything. I can't believe that.

"If somebody's going to go out there and do something nasty they would do it regardless of whether they can find you on the internet or they can't.

"There's evil out there and I don't think the internet's going to increase that."

* Hadouken! play PJ Molloys on Friday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-QW20ge98