Hudson Taylor has sights set on Oran Mor

The brothers got their musical start busking in Dublin, and they still like to head out and perform when the mood takes them.

"We've actually busked in Glasgow once or twice, before shows, but when we started in Dublin it was really just to earn a bit of pocket money," explains Harry Hudson-Taylor.

"We were doing a lot of covers and really learned what gets people going, and what got a lot of attention. That's probably where we learned our influences in terms of our songwriting.

"We did it in Dublin last week, and sometimes we'll put up on Twitter that we're going to do it.

"Last year in Germany, we just went around Hamburg and decided to busk there and then - you get a vibe for a city that way in a way that you wouldn't get otherwise."

Although the lads probably earn a fair amount of change when busking, they don't need to rely on it for income now.

Their melodic folk-pop has won plenty of admirers, leading to support slots with man of the moment Jake Bugg and fellow Irish outfit Kodaline, with whom they share a few tuneful similarities.

Growing up in a musical family (their dad was a pianist and their mum a dancer) led Harry and younger brother Alfie to get interested in music from a young age, and after years of busking their debut EP Battles made people sit up and take notice in 2012.

Now their first album Singing For Strangers will be out in March, although it took the twosome time to capture the sound of their gigs on record.

"It was a headache for a long time," admits Harry.

"There are songs on there that are four years old and other songs that we recorded four or five times before feeling we'd got them right.

"We're 99.9% happy with it, but there's a few things that we let go, because we had to - we're perfectionists and could have been sitting there forever until it was ready."

Although the duo might be most known so far for tunes that shoot for the heart, it's a song with a message that Harry reckons is the stand-out song on the album.

"The one song I'm most happy with is Don't Tell Me - I don't know if it'll be a single or anything, but we were just really happy with the message in it," he says.

"It's about marriage equality for gay people.

"There's a lot going on in Ireland the now about that, and we wanted to write about that - it's like an anti-bullying song, and is one that's good craic to sing live too."

The brothers write together and also separately, but although pop's littered with examples of feuding siblings, Harry reckons everything's always cool with him and Alfie.

"We're best friends, we're very honest with each other and we know what's going on with each other personally," he adds.

"We don't really fight and we don't have any qualms about being honest with each other.

"Maybe with other people you'll have to let something go but not with your brother, which helps the songs."

Another help have been some of their support slots, none bigger than playing before the Rolling Stones when the legendary rockers played Hyde Park in 2013.

It was an experience Hudson Taylor won't forget, partly because it was unexpected...

"We were on the bill, but away from the main stage," recalls Harry.

"We went off planning to get nicely inebriated before watching the Rolling Stones, and then our manager got told we were replacing Tom Odell on the main stage, as he was ill.

"There was no nerves whatsoever because there was no time to think about it.

"We just did the same set as before, but instead of a few hundred people it was 50,000 people.

"You couldn't get the smiles off our faces, we looked like total smiling idiots for the whole set."

Saturday night in Glasgow should be more straightforward, although the aftershow might get messy...

"We've never been around Glasgow during Celtic Connections, so we're really looking forward to experiencing that," says Harry.

"We've had many a good night in Nice N Sleazys in the past, although they all blur together a bit!"

Hudson Taylor, Oran Mor, Saturday, £14, 7pm