How was it getting your first number one album? Hugo: Yeah it was great. We’ve never been within reach of that before, so to actually have it go to number one was amazing. It was a bit of a battle wasn’t it? Felix: Yeah, with Lianne La Havas. I think we were pretending we didn’t care that much. Hugo: We were waiting to find out just before boarding a flight, we were all saying to each other “oh yeah number two is fine. Number
two is really good!” But being that close we definitely wanted to be number one. Adele kindly called you the most consistent band around at the moment - would you agree with her? Hugo: It’s very sweet of her. I read that and she said she’d been watching us for a long time. There are a few people from that time in our lives that we still see. I guess we have been consistent and we definitely haven’t taken a break. Did you grow up in a scene with people like Adele and Jamie T then? Felix: Not so much a scene. I actually first met Jamie T in Brighton. We were playing a place called Ocean Rooms. There were three floors and you had live gigs on the ground floor and raves downstairs and at the time he was trying to make it as an MC. We played
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to the Wild’ had many textures and layers to it. We tried to do a second ‘Given to The Wild’ and it didn’t quite work. It meant taking a lot of stuff out. We were trying to make it sound vulnerable and open and real, at places where the last record didn’t.
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