Hello Trish Keenan!
All right, Slashmusic!

Broadcast have been going for years and have never been walloped with the 'trendy’ stick. How have you got by?
"Getting by" is right. I think a lot of it is Birmingham. We're based in Birmingham and always have been, and there's a kind of mentality that's really... well... oddball. Everyone gravitates towards the art house cinema, the record shop down the road, there's no traipsing to London to see what's cool - and I think that's given us the sense that there's people around us who'll support us whatever we are doing.

Talking of Brum, why don’t you cover Black Sabbath or Judas Priest and make some money?
It’s not really us. But you know, even those rock bands represent something which we see in Birmingham - they were never trendy but they did what they wanted. The same goes for us and the bands we know - when bands like us and Pram started in the 90s we thought it was this big movement, mixing the avant-garde with pop, but the media from outside Brum could never get a handle on it.

So you’re ‘outsiders’ then?
Well, maybe to start with we genuinely thought we could break through, but as soon as the first album was released we realised we were never going to be huge. People think we’re weird, but this is who we are and this is how we're going to stay.

How weird do you get, say, with films?
Well I couldn't say I'm an expert on film as a whole or anything, but I am a big fan of Czechoslovakian cinema from the 60s. One film I love is ‘Daisies’, by Vera Chytilova. It's about some girls who take advantage of older men, and there's a great scene of them walking around on the tables at this banquet in their high heels - but beyond that it's hard to describe. It's genuinely surreal, quite extravagant and it doesn't give up its secrets easily, which is why it’s good to watch again and again.

We watched 'Dude, Where’s My Car?' again last night, it was great. So, are you a big reader too? Your lyrics are really, um, poetic..
I love poetry, I do - especially this French movement called Oulipo, people like Georges Perec, who focused on creating mathematical rules for the creation of poetry. They would set tight restrictions on their methods of writing, and again it creates mystery, it gives a particular feeling of coding, of something going on under the surface if you like.

That’s all too much for our tiny minds. Let’s change the subject. What pop stars are great?
Oh I love the Fence Collective and King Creosote - I think they're really special. They do their own thing in their own home area and it really shows, they have their own personality and style so much more than most people.

Finally, are you the brainiest woman in Brum?
I don’t understand the question.

Brilliant! Thank you very much Trish.
No, thank you, Slashmusic!