This boy-girl duo from Sheffield, who list chairs and spoons as part of their line-up, is definitely not your average-sounding 'new-folk' band despite a confession to belonging to the plaid-shirt brigade. Their beautifully constructed harmonies, simplistic but rich Americana sound and endearing awkwardness makes you want to stomp your feet, clap your hands and just smile.  With a fistful of acclaimed singles under their belts and an album on the way, Slow Club released the "Let's Fall Back In Love" EP on September 1st through Moshi Moshi and played at the record label's 10th birthday party at matter.

DD: What type of music do you like listening to and how do you feel about being labelled new-folk?
CW: We both have different tastes in music, Becky is into a lot of pop; I am not. But our different tastes help with the writing as it makes concise, and we write all our songs together.
RT: We didn’t realise there was a ‘new folk’ or whatever genre, we never thought about it those terms. We started off playing together with Charles on the guitar and we would always sing in harmony together. And then I started playing the drums, and it naturally ended up sounding like it does. I still don’t know what it is meant to sound like really.

DD: Your percussion section has a few interesting items, how did you start using a chair for a drum?
RT: We used to practise in Charles’s kitchen, and as I didn’t have a drum I used one of the chairs instead. We liked the sound it made, it makes different sounds depending on where you hit it so we stuck with it.
CW: We have broken quite a few chairs over the past years but this one we use now is quite sturdy.

DD: So tell us about the album that you are working on, does it have a title yet?
RT: We are calling it ‘Yeah, so’…that’s a first actually we haven’t told anyone that before, it’s an exclusive for you. They are the best two words ever! Nothing beats that title, if someone is having a go at you for it you can just say ‘yeah so’, you can’t really say anything back to it.
CW: We have almost finished the album, we are just getting the artwork done it will have loads of photos that we have collected over the last three year in it.

DD: Where can we see you next?
CW: We are doing quite a few gigs around the UK in the months to come, and we just booked the Union Chapel for the 1 December. We’ll get some friends into play with us, another drummer, a banjo, a lap steel guitar, and a bass, just to make it a bit fuller and special.
RT: It will be a really good gig I think, and it’s just really nice when people come to see us.  We have supported other bands for a long time but it’s changing now, we can feel it.