Is sell-out advertising music a frustration of both of you?

Geoff: I've got nothing against those styles of music and how people make them, but it just gets to the point where it's like having a preset button on a keyboard. Like hitting dubstep preset. Hip-hop preset. It's the new generic bossanova, quick-time, disco beat preset tunes you get on your keyboard. It's the same shit isn't it? The trouble is the general public don't care whether it's the imitation or if it's the real thing. Somehow the two got mangled up somewhere.

Adrian: I don't really watch TV or adverts. I appreciate they've got to be there. Shit has to be advertised for you to know it's there. Filmmakers get a break through advertising and that can be good. Sometimes you get a great ad with very cool music, but very rarely because advertising agencies that commission them are moneymaking cunts, the lot of them.

There must be things in modern culture that do excite you?

Adrian: I'm quite excited by modern culture because I've got a shit filter I can switch on and off and certain things don't bother me. Just don't watch the telly. I definitely don't do Facebook or Twitter or anything like that shit. I've just never done it. I know there are some interesting things I can talk about on there, but the plethora of shite that comes out of it - I'd just get deluged and overwhelmed. I do worry about some of the things I don't get involved with, but at the end of the day it's just more cack to go through. On a personal level, only people that are really concerned about being informed about everything really go in for that shit. Me, I've got two kids and I've got other things I'm interested in. I've only got a finite amount of time and brain space to deal with it all. I can't process that much information.

As a band do you hang out as mates at all?

Geoff: We can do, but we work together so closely, the time we aren't together we don't tend to. We've got families and kids now.

Adrian: I have such a laugh with Geoff still after all these years. Together we have the ability to destroy each other and also this fantastic, sarcastic ability to slag everything off in the world. It's like a flamethrower. We nuke everything to the ground and start again. That's definitely Geoff's approach. That's why we get on so well. He's much more vocal in the press than I am, I'm much more reticent because I don't want all the shit coming back at me. I just find it really funny.

As a front women of a successful band, I can't think of another woman, other than Karin from The Knife perhaps, who is such an enigma to people as Beth. She doesn't do interviews and keeps herself entirely away the limelight.

Adrian: You can get to know Beth through her music. It's not a deliberate marketing move to have Beth who doesn't speak - she's just not comfortable talking in interviews, but she is comfortable talking. I couldn't tell you why. Just generally she's uncomfortable in that situation. When she was doing her solo album with Rustin Man, I produced a couple of tracks and played a little bit on it on, but it wasn't my project. Then when we were on tour, she asked me to so some radio interview for her - it barely had anything to do with me!

Geoff: She basically is a very, very interesting person that I've been lucky enough to work with throughout all these years. She is incredibly truthful and she has an amazing existence of not being caught up in any bullshit. I totally admire the way she lives. She is incredibly passionate about human beings, yet at the same time doesn't stand for any crap. I think sometimes I've said things that have misrepresented her or the writer has misrepresented what I've said about her. I totally respect her and always want to continue working with her. And Adrian for that matter.

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