No, it’s this decade, the one we’re living in. It’s the only thing that can influence you.

We’ll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

We made it on a cheap PC that couldn’t get enough power and kept crashing. We’d borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That’s what I mean about trying...

It’s just close enough to the city but no-one ever goes there,

When you think we made the album for ‘£300, it’s a vindication of what we’ve done. Our recording budget is Coldplay’s macrobiotic yoghurt budget.

The look in his eyes said it all.

He was like ‘We’re well made up for you being nominated, we’re really pleased for you. But if you win it, we’re going to kill you’.

We feel like outsiders so if they want to rank us as outsiders then that suits us fine,

We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.

There’s towns just like ours in America. I think what we say is quite universal.

Anything that can help has got to be a good thing. Other products get help (in being marketed overseas) by the Department of Trade and Industry, so why not music?

Ricky came up to me and he was really sweet,

I was very conscious that you don’t get many opportunities in life and we had an opportunity,

It’s totally alien for us to be at something like the Mercury’s. We ‘ d have frittered the money away and given some to our producer. He made our album for love; it was never...