Q: Why and when did you decide to start a band?
Dom: At the time we were naive and it seemed like a good thing to do, but I’d say we were all writing in our own circles and it just kind of developed. It went from being a couple of us having a little jam after uni, to begin with. It’s probably a standard cliché story that you’ve heard a thousand times when you’ve been interviewing people and you are probably bored to death of hearing it. But you know they all start in the same way and there is nothing different about us in that sense. We all love music and we just like jamming and something happened in spring 2007 and it kicked off. 

Q: What music do you personally listen to?
Dom: I love The Kinks, I love Grizzly Bear as well
Jack: I like James actually.

Q: What do you think; you’d be doing now if you wouldn’t be in the band?Dom: Probably be a DJ; a scummy DJ.
Martin: I’d be a photographer.
Jack: I’d probably sit over there somewhere.

Q: Did you guys all go to the same uni?
Dom: Me and Jack went to the same uni, Martin recently finished his university career.
Martin: I went to university in London.

Q: Apart from being in band, do you have an extra job? Martin: Yeah, we all have jobs which I think is a really good thing because it keeps you active.
Dom: Yeah and it keeps you busy so that you don’t waste your time. It sounds stupid but when we meet up it’s really creative, just makes it fun, and makes it what it is meant to be; which is a break from everyday life, which is what you look for from it really.
Martin: You want to make the most of the time you’ve got.
Dom: Jack. We don’t know what Jack does (laughs)
Martin: Some sort of nationwide thing.
Jack: Yeah.
Dom: Martin has got the coolest job.
Martin: It’s quite flexible. I work in an antique shop. Professionally piss around and get paid for it (laughs)

Q: What do you do at your free time? Do you have any hobbies?
Jack: Kite surfing.(Dom & Martin Laugh)
Dom: You don’t kite surf.
Martin: Basically apart from music for the rest of our time we’re listening to music.
Dom: When we are not playing music, we’re watching it or reading about it which is what you guys do, so it’s all about the music man! That’s where we are coming from.

Q: Who would you like to go on tour with?
Martin: Muse because they are Gods.
Dom: I’d love to go on tour with Metronomy.
Martin: Awesome, We’d love to go on tour with Metronomy.

Q: Tell us about your bands future plans?
Martin: We’ve got plans.
Dom: We have a single coming out on 29th of June. It’s our debut single. I’ll tell you the thing about us is that we never set out to do new music or push the boat out or be like we’re doing something new, but I think that’s why when going forward we are going to be different because it’s a bit more natural. The single was recorded live, and you don’t see that very often anymore, everyone just tracks the crap out of everything and at the end, the result is technically a perfect piece of music but it’s got no life to it, it got no feeling. It comes out on the 29th of June and that’s what we are working towards. It’s like a beginning for us, because we never had anything in the media, this is pretty much our first interview.

Q: What reaction do you expect from your fans?
Dom: We don’t have delusions, we don’t expect it to be on the radio or anything like that. That would be delusional and a bit arrogant. We know there are years of hard work ahead and we are ready for it, we want to do it. We just want to spread a few seeds, just get our name out there, get people to know that we are here and then hit it with another single in September.

Q: How would you react if you became famous after the single?
Dom: That’s what we look forward to, I mean at the end of the day we want a career in music and we want it to last a very long time and we are happy building it up slowly. There were lots of bands out there; I think one of the talents that really divides real musicians from people who were just doing it because it’s fashionable and the people who were doing it over the long period of time, they may not get anywhere for ages and they just keep going regardless and they believe in it, and one day they get there. And I’ve got a lot of respect for people like that and that’s the people we want to be.

Q: If you’d be famous do you think it would affect your future albums?Jack: I think it would be better. We could relax and do it properly; I think we would just get better.

Q: Don’t you think that commercialisation makes music worse?
Dom: We need to define commercialisation. I am not afraid of the word pop and don’t think that anyone should be. Popular music essentially just means that a lot of people like it and that can’t be a bad thing. Yes, if we’d start having other people writing our music for us and stuff like that and were literally just the faces, that would be awful and we’d never let that happen.
Martin: The only thing that you lose when you become commercial is that you’re less cool. Generally people think that it’s less cool because you are sort of adapting to a noun and just trying to sell as many records, which to be honest part of that is true but I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
Dom: Major labels control their bands of course, but at the same time if we’d be told what to do and when to play it would take the enjoyment of it and we wouldn’t do it anymore so I don’t think that there is a danger for us in a negative sense.

Q: What would you like to say to your fans and people who support you?Dom: Sit with us, we’ll get there.
Martin: Yeah, Together (laughs)