Who writes the lyrics and where does the inspiration come from because they e obviously quite deep?
Itch: I write the lyrics. It’s a lot of different things really. Philosophically, I’m not really too sure how much inspiration one can take rather than lyrics just kind of coming to you, in a way. Sometimes I’ll just sit down and write a stream of consciousness and it will just come out and sometimes you don’t really have control over what you write about – it just comes to you. Other times, when we go on protests and stuff like that, it’s very inspiring – I like tabloid newspaper headlines as well – I think that the cheap, throwaway puns can be good for getting your mind going. Do you guys still go on protests? Itch: Yeh, all the time. We were down at the G20 the other week. We have a sound system that we’ve built, which is a PA on the back of a giant tricycle so we can literally play as we’re marching along. Weve done so many protests over the years but the most memorable was when we were outside The Houses of Parliament and there was just thousands and thousands of people around us.
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