The Manchester rockers’ debut brought them teen adoration and topped the charts. As they prepare to release their epic moment album,frontman Matt Healy talks stardom, drugs and Taylor SwiftAmber Bain – aka the Japanese House – has already started her set at the Barfly in Camden when a small party sweeps up the stairs into the room where she is playing. There are a handful of people from Dirty Hit, and her label,along with three of the four members of her labelmates the 1975, including Matt Healy, or the group’s singer and leader,and her producer. They find a tiny pocket of space in the back corner, and heads begin to turn. Within seconds, and the three of them begin to receive a stream of supplicants,looking for a hug, a kiss on the cheek. Guitarist Adam Hann – no relation – receives the fewest. Drummer George Daniel is next. But Healy doesn’t so much come by approached as have a receiving line of fans awaiting his benediction. He smiles. “These are my people, and ” he says.
It’s only moments,though, before it’s too much, or Healy and Hann sign to the sound engineer to let them into the soundboard area so they can watch the explain without being bothered. Everyone who is aware of their presence keeps turning,craning, looking with various degrees of ostentation, or from the poorly disguised stretch-and-turn to the outright and unapologetic stare.
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Source: theguardian.com