Clementine: If any of your songs had a personality, what would they be?
Celia: Oh this is so difficult. Pull The Other One would probably be bratty. Silent Movie Susie, she’s quite cheeky, and The Road is strong and resolved. My favourite is The End and Zeds is really sexy.

Clementine: And what’s the story behind your latest release Formidable?
Celia: We all loved it instantly. It’s about being there for someone and helping them through something, and it’s really serious about that. It’s probably the most earnest of the songs so far, that’s why the video for this one was quite hard because we couldn’t just make ourselves look stupid. We also didn’t want to look like douchebags. You know, sometimes after a long night’s drive, you’ve just got to get in the back of a van with your mates and jam out a song.

Clementine: Just another day on the road.
Celia: The number of times we’ve done that, I can’t tell you, I just remember being very cold and cramped and Louis Bhose [the director] being like, “I bloody love this stuff! It keeps me alive.” He’s a wonderful guy.

Clementine: Some of your videos are equal parts fun and terrifying. I can’t imagine having things thrown at you would be much fun, like in the video for Cupid!
Celia: With Cupid, we didn’t want to throw a load of food around because that’s a total waste, but then you have to think of things you can throw at people that look good on camera, but aren’t painful. So we had Monopoly money and weird frothy balls, plastic forks and loads of shit like that. The first bit was just pain, like super soakers and paint balloons that my friend spent all morning filling up. The first hit is just on Jules and we had to do that like three times, because it wouldn’t explode, it’d just bounce off her. We were getting pelted, couldn’t breathe properly and it was getting in our eyes and the whole time you’re trying to look good playing the song and not look fucking terrified.

Clementine: And dancing around with ribbons…
Celia: Kind of difficult, but also really easy to make look impressive. You just swivel about and everyone’s like, “Ooooooh.” When you’re twelve and start playing guitar in your bedroom, even if you daydream about playing massive gigs to people, you never think there might be a whole team of people who will work for nothing in order to make this kind of thing into reality.

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