MUSIC

We interrogate Still Corners to reveal a strange affinity for pugs, whose life’s work they’d happily throw in a trash compactor and which 'Breakfast Club' actress makes them feel a bit woozy.

Last record you bought

Greg: Neon Indian's ‘Era Extraña’.

First and last songs on your party playlist

Tessa: First is ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ and last is Hall and Oates’s ‘Out of Touch (Out of Time)’.

You are inserted into a TV show/film to live alongside its characters forever: which one?

Tessa: ‘Tess of d'Urbervilles’ if Tess ended up with Angel Clare.

First crush

Greg: Molly Ringwald in ‘The Breakfast Club’, ding dong.

Who is your hero?

Greg: Angelica Houston, Woody Allen, Superman, John Hughes, and David Fridmann.

Your house is on fire, you can save three things. What are they?

Greg: My hard drive with all our new songs and the people I love, not in this order.

If you could instantly remove anyone from the earth, who would you choose?

Tessa: David Cameron.

Greatest discovery of the past year

Greg: A toss-up between those Cadbury's Flake yoghurt things and Factory Floor.

If you could bring in one global law, what would it be?

Greg: Everyone must own at least two pugs.

Last funny thing you saw online

Tessa: Pinky the cat.

First film you saw that really moved you

Greg: ‘Jaws’.

First album you heard that really moved you

Greg: ‘Surfer Rosa’ by the Pixies.

Last time you were star struck

Greg: About nine years ago when I met Ira Kaplan.

You’ve had a terrible day: what’s your go-to comforting romcom?

Tessa: ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’.

If you could rename any band, who would it be and what would you call them?

Greg: Still Corners to Throne of Feedback.

Last thing you recommended to someone

Tessa: ‘Middlesex’, the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides.

Weirdest place you’ve woken up

Tessa: At the bottom of the stairs when I started at the top.

‘Still Corners: The Movie’. Who stars, and what’s the tagline?

Greg: ‘The Haunted Pontins’. All of us and Ray Winstone. “Pay to get in, pray to get out.”

Body of work (musician/director/author/etc) you would most like to claim as your own

Greg: Bob Ross.

Body of work you'd most like to see disappear in the annals of time

Greg: Anything by L. Ron Hubbard.

In honour of Bristol-born Robert Wyatt, and the practice of ‘Wyatting’ (“playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers”) – what would be your Wyatting track of choice?

Tessa: ‘Some Velvet Morning’ by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.

And in honour of (arguably) Bath’s most famous resident, what character traits do you find the most irritatingly Austen... tatious?

Tessa: Pretentiousness on the Mrs Elton scale.

Finally, a quick round of one of our favourite games... Would you rather fight a horse-sized chicken or 10 chicken-sized horses?

Greg: That's surreal. I'd ride the chicken.

Would you rather sweat mayonnaise or only wear clothes made of ham?

Tessa: That's silly. I'd eat the ham and be naked.

Would you rather live your life as in a musical or have it narrated by Morgan Freeman for all to hear?

Greg: I'd rather do anything than sit through another musical.

STILL CORNERS PLAYED THE LOUISIANA, BRISTOL ON THUR 9 FEB, WITH MY SAD CAPTAINS.

Copyright Leah Pritchard 2012