That van I’ve seen you posing in front of, is that your actual tour van?

So how are you guys enjoying 2011 so far?

JL: It’s been great to see ourselves in the NME a bit. And to do that BBC Radio Maida Vale thing. We had a great time. And we’re really excited about the show at XOYO tonight.

How many bands to watch in 2011 lists did you make?

DW: We're on a couple but I find lists like that a bit misleading, to be honest.
JC: They’re all very different.
DW: And you seem to be able to buy your way on 'em. Everyone that seems to have a massive record deal’s on there.
JL: We were on the NME one, that’s the one that counts.
JC: Because they actually listen to the music.

Dan White, Miguel Demelo, Jim Cratchley, Johnny Lloyd

What do you think of hype lists like that when they come out, as music fans?

JL: Well that’s what they are: hype. Like Dan said, most of the bands have got big deals. So it’s more of an industry hype. The bands that we’re into in Camden aren’t ever going to be on that list, ‘cos they haven’t got deals.

Bands like?

JL: Bones, Turbogeist... Yeah, but we’re still happy to be a part of it.

Online, you guys are harder to research than I thought. You don’t even have your own Wikipedia page. You know you don’t exist unless you’re on Wikipedia?

JL: We just keep it MySpace.
DW: We don’t think it’s that important. We don’t want to ram anything down anyone’s throat or try and sell what we do. We just want to do what we do and let people discover it if they’re into it.
JC: Someone asked me to Like our Facebook page the other day, which I didn’t even know existed.
JL: We both found our Facebook page on the same day. I think Margherita (Visconti – Urok Management) did it. It’s banging man! Ha ha...

Have you listened to any of the other Tribes bands out there?

DW: Oh, there’s a French, Quebecy metal band.
JC: And there’s an Australian hardcore band.
JL: I don’t know if that’s, like, a cool thing to do, research your own band name?
DW: They have no relevance to us.
JL: We don’t really care. There’s no other Tribes doing the music we’re doing. If there’s a French metal band, that’s fine, you know?
DW: We don’t play French metal.

One online account I did find mentioned that you had one sound then re-emerged from your bedroom with a new demo and a whole new sound?

JL: Yeah. We went back and started more of a song writing basis than, like, a gang of us sort of jamming.
DW: We started Tribes and this is the methodology. Johnny writes songs, demos them in his bedroom and brings them to the band for us to expand on.
JL: We just jam ‘em out. It’s usually pretty instant.

That van I’ve seen you posing in front of, is that your actual tour van?

JL: It belongs to some friends of ours. We just got lent it for the last tour.
MD: We’ve become quite attached to it.
DW: Shirley! Sharon?
MD: Sheila!