show me yours | matty healy

chapter twelve

May 26th 2013

"First interview, you ready?" George asks Tommie.

She nods, arms crossed as she squeezes onto the little settee they have.

She's a little nervous for her first interview since Matty and George have done a few before but she's never done one.

"Hi," The interviewer walks in, all smiles as she shakes their hands, "I'm Carly Wilford, nice to meet you."

"Thank you." They all say and she squeezes into the gap between Matty and George.

"So, I'll be as quick as I can, I'm sure you guys would rather be watching all the acts that are talking back here, gonna just ask a few questions, maybe read some tweets, it'll just be quick, no more than ten minutes."

They all nod and she turns to the camera, introducing the three who give their usual awkward smiles and waves.

"Guys, it's been a big year for you, there's a lot going on, you're absolutely everywhere, how does it feel?"

She holds the mic towards Matty who's too busy fidgeting with the fabric of his jeans to notice, causing Tommie to nudge his arm with her elbow.

"Crazy." He stutters quickly, hand moving to mess around with his hair, "We haven't really been in the country for a lot of it, like when Chocolate went so mental, and now a new single. We've been in America and Europe, and just touring so we've just seen eachother everyday, it's not really been that different for us. Yeah, but the shows are getting bigger, and people are really investing their time into us as the band, so it's amazing. Amazing time."

She nods as he talks, "Who's the best behaved in the band?" She asks, looking between George and Tommie. "Tommie?"

Matty and George break into a quick laugh, "Not Tommie." They say at the same time.

"I'm well behaved." She defends and Carly jumps in with a nod of agreement.

"Tommie's the quiet one, she's the baby, of course she's the best behaved."

"No," George shakes his head, "I'm quite tidy on the bus, I wash up and that."

"I'm tidy." Tommie says quickly.

Matty shakes his head, "That's 'cause you're a control freak and need everything in order or you'll spiral."

George nods, "That's also part of the reason I'm tidy," Carly laughs a little and chimes in to defend Tommie telling her she's a bit of a clean freak who needs things tidy too, "I'm afraid of her, honestly. She's scary."

"Tommie?" Carly reaches out to pat her shoulder gently, "My little Tommie? I don't believe that, look at her."

Matty shrugs, "I mean, if we're being honest, we're all kind of well behaved. We've been in the band a very long time, and this is a very kind of pursuit of music for us, so a lot of our partying doesn't happen when we're on tour, cause we're trying to try and keep it as this-, well, try to be as good as possible. But yeah, I suppose all of us have our moments, we're in a rock band," Tommie snorts at that and he moves his arm to wrap around her head, bringing her into a headlock, "You know what I mean? Got to be a bit naughty."

"Yeah, of course." She laughs watching Tommie struggle to fight her way out of his hold, "You just said, you've been on this journey for quite a long time, how long have you guys been working towards getting to where you are now?"

"We started a band when we were like... fourteen?"

George nods, "Fourteen, thirteen, yeah we started playing at school and then just after we played our first show just playing, like, really heavy punk covers, and stuff. We were just like, let's do this."