Why the name The 1975? <\/strong><\/p>\nWhen I was 19 I went on holiday to the northern part of Majorca. I went on loads of long walks and came across a beautiful spanish villa. On a deckchair in the porch sat this artist. We sparked up a conversation and I ended up staying there all day. It was like some kind of 60s vintage haberdashery: original Beatles records, signed Elvis shit, a photo of him with Hendrix. He showed me his library and gave me all of that Beat generation literature i’ve mentioned before in interviews. I didn’t start reading any of it until about 6 months later but when I eventually did, I found this mental page of scribblings. The only thing that stuck with me was that the page was dated ‘1st June. The 1975’. When it came to naming the band, it was perfect.<\/p>\n
How did the band come together? We read somewhere that you’ve been playing together for ten years.<\/strong><\/p>\nWe met at school. Hann come up to me, probably about 15, and said ‘Do you wanna like\u2026 play drums in my band?’ There was no real scene in our town and we were all looking for some way of expressing ourselves, I suppose. Some woman called Sheila started gigs for underage kids (she was like a hippy council worker) and they soon turned into a riot. We would go and play there, doing covers of punk songs and Ghostbusters. After doing that for a while we wrote a song and thought, “Let’s just do this! This is well better than going to school or work.” So we went under loads of names, made loads of different music and now we’re here – as The 1975.<\/p>\n
How would you describe your sound?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt’s difficult to say really. Our records span a lot of different moods and influences. There seems to be a lot of deliberation about our sound at the moment, mainly the question ‘Do they actually know what they are doing? do they know who they want to be?’ and I’ve really embraced that and I find the whole thing quite fascinating.<\/p>\n
What’s a typical day in the life of The 1975? <\/strong><\/p>\nWake up, cig and a brew. Recently we’ve been rehearsing a lot for our first headline tour. But a lot of our time is spent hanging out recording and just making tunes. We’re very lucky that we can now focus on purely making music, but now we can call it a job which is a great excuse. <\/p>\n