Entirely deliberate.

Everything that’s on the Internet and in any way related to our names, individually or collectively, is deliberately left or put there so that curious people end up asking more questions instead of receiving any answers.

HMLTD means:
Happy Meal Ltd.
Happy Meal Unlimited
Hate Music Last Time Delete
Humiliated
Her Majesty’s Latent Torpedo Destructors
How My Life Turned to Death
HMLTD
Her Mother Loved To Dance
None of the above
All of the above

The first number one single to top the Billboard charts about a sex dream with Leo Trotsky.

Not always. Otherwise, we would’ve killed each other. We still might.

The idea behind both how we sound and how we look is breaking down boundaries. But in terms of men wearing makeup and dressing androgynously, a thousand people before us have done what we’re doing, and we don't want to take any credit for that. The majority of the band identifies, unproblematically, as straight men. But we’ve all grown up in an environment where that phrase means something toxic and violent, something that we don’t agree with or identify with.
While we mostly see ourselves as ‘male,’ we don't see masculinity as a monolithic thing. We believe there are other versions of masculinity and that people don’t have to conform to the toxic one that seems to dominate society and define the patriarchy. ‘Queerness’ is obviously a concept in flux, and whether this idea falls under that umbrella is up for debate. But the point is that we all identify with this alternative masculinity, and that’s sincerely what we present. We dress to express our individual identities and ourselves.

A lot of that is influenced by artists and innovators who do identify as queer, especially two we’ve been really lucky to work with: Charles Jeffrey and Jenkin Van Zyl, who totally inspire us and to whom we are indebted. Most of the artists we love are queer, and we think that’s partly because when you look at the creative world, in terms of male representation, it’s amazing what proportion of those creatives are queer.
That owes a lot to how creativity and imagination are really celebrated and respected in the queer community, and partly to the fact that the toxic version of masculinity we mentioned seems to totally punish these qualities from day one, which is yet another problem with that version. So, no, we definitely don't think that we’re ‘queerness tourists’. What we present is always totally our unadulterated identities. Encouraging others to do so is the key message of the band, and we believe very strongly that it’s a good message.

We met Soft Cell independently of Nine Inch Nails. They liked our music, and long story short, we ended up scuba diving and bungee jumping together… and other crazy things that we can’t really reveal in this interview.

Plausibly. Or maybe people finally started paying attention.

A mix of the above. There’s an underbelly in London with all kinds of talented and gifted people. And once you’re in, you end up swimming in a mud pool of genius innovation.

Without wanting to reveal too much about the art, it is clear that a lot of lusting (and loving) involves projecting onto the other. Combine that with celebrity and porn culture, and you have a toxic recipe for a distorted sexuality. We thought it was important to capture that in a video.

There are a lot of rituals involved: summoning spirits, casting spells, etc. At our Southampton show, a man climbed on stage and kept offering Henry a glass of water; getting progressively angrier when his offering was denied. The man begged Henry to write a song about it. And he did.

His crotch hurts but it’s worth it.

Achilleas writes a lot of them. He almost became a professional academic philosopher. Therefore, he is naturally incoherent and profound. Some of them are also crude copy-pastes from the Bible, the Vedas and other sacred and non-sacred texts.