Romy Croft

I'm Romy and I play guitar and I'm one of the songwriters and I sing.

Oliver and I met in nursery school when we were three.

This is wonderful.

Fascinating to hear this now.

Jamie and I used to go skateboarding together and we used to watch a lot of skate videos together and discovered a lot of amazing music.

There was a video that Jamie showed me that had Portishead and Mazzy Star and The Cure.

I think that was actually an amazing way of discovering music.

It was just such a private, personal exploration, connecting with music.

It was such like a shy, I remember a moment of us sitting together and I was like, I like singing.

And you were like, I like singing.

Then Oliver and I were kind of trying to, along with Baria, who was also in the band at the time, trying to like find a way to play live.

Yeah, we begged Jamie.

We said, please play drums in the band.

Please play live drums because we thought he was a great drummer.

I'm really glad that Jamie said no at first because it kind of forced Oliver and I to, we figured out a way to make electronic drums, simplistic ones first.

And I think because of the limitations, I mean, a lot of everything we'll say has probably come from limitations.

You know, Oliver and I were like writing to electronic drums from the eight track that I had.

It had like drum beats in it.

So we sort of would use those.

Or I remember making some really simple drum beats on like a weird program on my computer.