Tell us about:

Your latest single you have released:

AH: Bad as Bingo from our new album ‘Scream if you Wanna go Faster’.

Your favourite lyric in this song

AH: I don’t tend to look at things I’ve written like that. It seems quite difficult for me to isolate elements. I feel compelled to see the whole picture.

Your favourite song that you have created that is an album track…

DC: On the new album….Fever Dream. Previous album…Significant Gesture.

AH: Again, similarly to the lyrics, I tend to view albums as a whole. Even set lists now I come to think of it.

Your favourite song to play live…

DC: Cubanos Nocturne

The song that was the longest to write and why?

DC: On new album…Bad as Bingo because it went through various stages, shaping the sound plus many arrangement combinations.

One of previous tracks to recommend for first time listeners and why?….

DC: Salvia – it’s a euphoric mix of glistening synths, guitar and has a wide expanse of sound and influences absorbed into it.

AH: From ‘Psychological Colouring Book’ I’d choose ‘Tangie Biscotti’ for the pop pickers and ‘Wheels Turn’ for the weirdos and misfits.

Dream Collaboration…

AH: I’d like Scissorgun to work on something with Jack Dangers. I love his drum programming. Then it’d be produced by Adrian Sherwood.

DC: Giving a track from the album to each of the following record producers and seeing what they would do with it…if they were alive too!

Teo Macero, George Martin, Brian Eno, Martin Hannett and Andrew Weatherall

Describe the feeling you get when walking onstage to do a show….

DC: Adrenalin, nerves and joy mixed in.

AH: I sometimes find myself in something of a daze but with moments of crystal clarity.

The track that is most fun to play live…

DC: Cubanos Nocturne

AH: I’d agree on that but also ‘Bad as Bingo’ and ‘Tangie Biscotti’ work for me because they feel really good to sing.

Describe fans in 3 words…

DC: Dedicated with taste!

A song released in the last few years by an artist or band you wish you had written…

DC: Sophie – Faceshopping

AH: Nommos Descent by Moses Boyd

What we can look forward to from your band next year.

AH: In early 2025 we performed a forty-minute piece in five parts at Grit art gallery in Manchester as part of Sight and Sound Exhibition. It’s our observations on the budget end of the retail and leisure market. Entitled ‘Leisurama’, it looks like our next album is likely to be a concept album. It’s early days and we’re talking to Dimple Discs about it at the moment. It’s already recorded and about to go into the production stage.

Hopefully we’ll have time to play some live dates whilst we’re putting the finishing touches to it.

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