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Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

'Communication Breakdown' - it was punchy and direct, with a real attitude that was different to other bands going around.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.