Tumblr, and a large part of your fanbase is teenage girls, who’re probably more vocal than other audiences. How do you take that kind of attention? When someone comes over and they’re a real fan, and you can tell that they genuinely care about the ideas you’re putting across, then it really matters. And I have all the time in the world for anybody like that. Um, but it does get slightly weird when you have 14-year old girls greeting you at an airport. A lot of them are sweet and really into the music, but a lot of them turn up with 6 cameras and an autograph book, and that’s what we find slightly weird, because the idea has strayed so far from where we started. Attention from young girls is weird because I don’t know how to react to it, and I don’t know how I’m perceived. It’s socially unusual for a 24-year old guy to have a daily dialogue with 14 / 15-year old girls. You know, there’s a lot of crying that happens, and I’m not sure how to deal with that; it’s a bit daft, it doesn’t make
you feel like Jesus, it makes you feel like a bit of a tit.
You tweeted recently “Another song about sex and drugs”. Do you think that they are the key topics of most of your songs? When I wrote those songs, no one knew who we were, so I wasn’t conflicted with any ideas like, ‘what am I writing about?’ But it’s not simply about sex and drugs; it’s all of the rock and roll clichés discussed from a certain point of view. Tere’s a lot of love and loss as well. I think the songs are so specific that they’re almost relatable. Tat’s the best thing about music, isn’t it, the subjectivity of it all.
You’re also quite big fans of bands like Swim Deep, do you feel that you and bands like that have come around in a similar context? Do you inspire each other or is it more difficult? Tere are lots of bands you meet on the circuit that it’s easy to be jealous, but a lot of them are really cool. Te media tries to split bands into different categories, but a lot of bands kick back against that and group together a little bit. We’re quite close to Swim Deep, but we couldn’t have come about from more different perspectives. Tey’re very much an NME-kind of band, and NME hate us. We’ve come from a different place. I think one of the things I’ve realised recently is that music publications are more interested in music’s impact on
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culture, or what David Bowie record was more ‘relevant’. We don’t come from that world; we get slagged off by people like the NME because but we don’t write music in one genre. But we don’t listen to one particular genre. We don’t consume any media in one particular format, so to not be reflective of our generation would be really difficult for us, because we’re 21st century… dudes! [George can be heard in the background] George now won’t stop laughing at me, but it’s true, we’re very much a product of our generation.
As we’re a local magazine, I’d like to ask, what’d you think of playing in Norwich? It was great. I spent a bit of time in Norwich; the guy that does all of our artwork is from Norwich - he owns Fortyounce. He’s really talented and a good friend of ours. We also played Latitude, which is pretty near Norwich. It was very posh; you go to Reading and Leeds and there’s sick all over the place and stuff, and then you go to Glastonbury or Latitude and it’s like Observer monthly pullouts and loads of children. I love festivals though, and denim shorts and - what’s that new thing all girls wear? [George can once again be heard laughing] … A leotard! In Australia yesterday girls in leotards and shorts were all we saw.
Beatrice Howard
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