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Angus & Julia Stone are nice. And I don’t mean that as in nice-as-a-codeword-for-dull, or nice-as-a-codeword-for-“safe”. I mean it in a the-music-industry-is-so-full-of-bastards-that-when-you-come-across-people-who-won’t-set-fire-to-their-children-if-that’s-what-it-takes-for-them-to-get-what-the-want-that-when-you-encounter-people-who-aren’t-it’s-a-massive-shock way.

After all, the pair have recorded a session for ol’ George Lamb, the most derided DJ on BBC 6Music of all time. And they still don’t want to panel his face in for shouting “shabba!” every twelve seconds.

“I don’t really know anything about that?” Julia responds when Music Towers queries her about the controversial record-spinner during our interview with one-half of the blues-folk duo. “But he was really lovely when we met him…”

Having just got off the Newton Faulkner tour – y’know, the half-million selling Massive Attack-covering dreadlocked guitar thumper – and the pair of them took to it like a hippy to lentils: “His shows are great to watch and the band and the whole crew feel like family. His audiences also, have been so good to us, really friendly. They are always there to watch from the beginning.” Of course there are other, more nutritional benefits: “They also have catering. So we get to eat every night….”

Despite the fact that they recently sold out a mini-tour and are back on the road in April for another headlining tour of their own, they don’t balk at the prospect of not being top of the bill. “We would always do supports, we get to play early then we watch the show. It is a very laid back way of touring.” Having seen rock bands bicker and scream over the smallest discrepancy on their rider, to come across an act that doesn’t bitch about their place on the bill is….well, both refreshing and somewhat strange.

The video for their latest single, ‘Wasted’ :

Of course, Angus and Julia aren’t that strange a proposition to us at Music Towers. We’ve been fans of the pair since way back – giving glowing review to their

‘Heart Full of Wine’ and ‘Chocolates and Cigarettes’ EPs, and describing past single, ‘Private Lawns’, as “like a private joke that invites the us in to the circle of people in on the punchline”. We even interviewed them way back in October 2006, right after they signed to Independiente.