And the Welcome everyone to Soda Jerka on songwriting episode 240. I'm Simon here as always with the They recently met with their fifth consecutive number one album,

the brilliantly assured being funny in a foreign language produced with Jack Antonoff

and we recently met with their lead singer and drum metal in about how it was put together and much, much more.

We're delighted to welcome the 1975's

Mattie Healy and George Daniel to the show.

The 1975 story begins in 2002 in Wilmslow, a suburb of Manchester in the

northwest of England.

Matty, George, League guitarist Adam Han and bassist Ross McDonald

had met at Wilmslow High School in their mid-teens

and decided to put a group together

when a kindly council worker organized a series of local gigs for young teenagers.

Matty was initially on drums until the departure of original lead singer Elliot Williams,

at which point George jumped behind the kit and Matty took over as frontman, a role he was evidently

born to fulfil. They rehearsed in Matti's parents' garage and gradually found their feet jamming their

favour of punk and pop songs. It was a couple of years before they started adding their own material to the mix.

They operated under a variety of names during this formative period, such as Talkhouse,

the slowdown and Drive Like I Do, before finally arriving at the 1975, a phrase

Matti had seen scrawled inside an annotated secondhand copy of Jack Kerouacs

on the road. However it was while still performing as Drive Like I Do in the late Nauties that they were first contacted via My Space, no less, by manager Jamie Oborne, who checked out their music after a tip-off from a fan.

Oborne Julie took them under his wing and shopped his young charges round to various labels,

but to no avail.

So he opted to cut out the middleman, launch his own label, Dirty Hit and sign them himself,

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