Oliver Sim

And I'm Oliver, I play bass, I sing and I'm the other songwriter.

And then we met Jamie when we were 11, the first day of school.

We didn't really start making music together.

We started independently.

Jamie was making his solo music, Romy was making hers, I was making mine.

I think when we started writing Crystallized, we only had about four songs.

We were playing pub sets for about 20 to 25 minutes, and Jamie had just joined the band.

I remember the very earliest demo was Romy and I playing two acoustic guitars.

It was in front of the program on... Photo booth.

Photo booth.

The most roundabout way to go.

At that point, songs very much started as like words on a piece of paper.

I remember my first lyric was inspired by something my mum read in a paper about how you can have your ashes compressed so hard that they turn into diamonds, which is really macabre, but that was the first lyric.

You've applied the pressure to have me crystallized.

mine and Romy's writing was very much like a patchwork rather than sat in the room together.

But so many of the songs from the outside must really sound like we're singing together.

Two parts of a love song sang at each other.

You know, Romy and I being best friends and not only that, both being gay, you know, it's not directed at one another.

It was kind of making each other's perspectives kind of just hoping they would fit.

When it came time to record this song, we'd actually done a few different versions with different producers, like our label and management had set us up on different speed dates.