Clementine: What is your writing process?
Katie: I usually write the lyrics first, or sometimes create a riff and find old lyrics that would fit well. It then turns into a collaborative process, bouncing ideas off each other, tweaking ideas until it’s something we love.

Clementine: Who and what inspires your music?
Charlie: When writing and playing music, we don’t consciously draw from people as influences, but I try to bring energy from other performances that I’ve seen and thought, ‘That’s what I want to look like and bring to our show.’
Katie: I’m more influenced by topics rather than people and other bands, if that makes sense. I’ll see something and think, “Yes I want to write a song about that” rather than “I want to write a song like that.”

Clementine: What are some of those experiences or issues you’ve felt compelled to write about?
Charlie: We draw on issues that we face ourselves as females and females in music. It’s important for us to talk about our experiences with others undermining us just because of our gender and age. However, we also try our best to reach out and really understand issues for other non-males and POC, as we are still very privileged in our position.
Katie: Mission Impossible is a song we wrote because two boys from bands in Norwich told us to ‘practice loads’ and that they were ‘shocked’ at how ‘good’ we were and one was physically annoyed when we said we had a show in London that we’d been asked to play. So it’s just about that undermining, and the assumption that we’re bad musicians because we’re girls.

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