"Sometimes I'm really enjoying myself," says singer and guitarist Jan Scott, "but sometimes it's torture. Not as in feeling sorry for myself, but it's like walking with big lead boots on and you really want to get going. Sometimes it's just harder to click into it."
On Stage they wear informal uniforms; not the result of any real nautical obsession, you understand, just a brief fling.
"We wanted to look serious and we all wanted to look the same. We didn't want a military look, but we sort of did. So we got a decommissioned military look."
Theatricality is important to their performances and their sets are dressed accordingly, with plants and branches arranged round the speaker stacks and kit on this occasion.
Jan says: "We wanted to bring something natural and something kinda soft. People aren't out there with their eyes shut. They are watching and you may as well take that into account."
The foliage also provides a counterbalance to their dark and often angular rock.
"Well, nature can be pretty bleak... we are from outside Kendal in the Lake District. In that sense, we're just trying to keep that with us."
Their second single on Rough Trade is 'Remember Me' and apparently takes its inspiration from Talking Heads' 'Once in a Lifetime', but not in any melodic sense.
"I'd love to be like David Byrne," admits Jan. "The weird way he twists words. He can make one word seem to mean so much.
I wanted the vocal on 'Remember Me' to be like a voice inside your head. Like your conscience."'
