![]() The pair of us are sitting in the spotlessly tidy, pine-surfaced kitchen of Healy’s east London townhouse, which he shares with the artist and creative director Sam Burgess-Johnson and Allen Ginsberg, his beloved year-old bull mastiff. It’s like, ‘Don’t take pics of me, I’m here to look at the bloody clothes!’ But I’m not sure how you’re going to write that without making me sound like a dickhead.” “ They make me realise I’m more famous than I think I am. Oh yes, Healy likes his fashion, although he admits he’s not mad about going to the actual shows. He’s my Sir Alex Ferguson of fashion - beaten once or twice in his career, but always the best.” Then there’s his “mate” Erdem, with whom he likes to discuss “ Fellini, contemporary dance and the concept of elegance”. “Although if you are talking a label for life, it’s probably Dries. Gucci, McQueen, Loewe - these are some of his favourite labels at the moment. Sprinkled across his fingers are an assortment of knuckle-dusters by Gucci, at his feet a women’s saddle bag, also by Gucci, all part of the vague Louis XV look, as he calls it, that the band are currently channelling. Mick Jagger - can you f****** believe it?”ĭressed this afternoon in a billowing silk shirt and tartan drummer-boy trews (“Not sure where they’re from, we rent a lot of stuff from the costume-hire department at the National Theatre”), Healy cuts the perfect figure of postmodern pop star: a kind of hybrid of Adam Ant and Robert Smith of the Cure, but sexier somehow, with those pouchy eyes and chiselled curls. There were 50,000 people there and I could only see about four of them, but out of the corner of my eye I could just make out this gyrating figure and it was Jagger dancing to Chocolate. “ It was before I had my eyes lasered and I wasn’t wearing my glasses. “ Yeah, I remember that gig,” says the 28-year-old Healy, with a faint Northern accent. That said, Mick Jagger, whom the band supported when the Stones played Hyde Park in 2013, is a huge fan - so fond of their hit single Chocolate, he has been known to put it on after dinner for guests. If you’re not familiar with their music - think Pete Doherty mixed with One Direction, maybe - it’s probably because, like me, you’re too old. ![]() They have just announced that their third album, Music for Cars, will be out next year, and when we meet they are about to go on tour, kicking off in Mexico and ending in July at Latitude Festival in Suffolk, where they will headline alongside Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons. Welcome to the world of the 1975, whose second album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (yes, really), went straight to No 1 in both America and the UK last year, and who won the best band award at the Brits in February. “ I got bored of being constantly woken up by a woman offering me a landing card while my tour manager, who always carries my passport, is conked out somewhere behind me. There’s the one dedicated to his nana his mum, Denise “Loose Women” Welch, is on his foot his dad, Tim “Auf Wiedersehen, Pet” Healy, is on his arm and his brother, Louis, on the back of a calf there’s the one dedicated to William Burroughs, the author of his favourite ever book, Queer then there’s the one on the inside of his left wrist… of his passport number. Why? Because here I am with Matt Healy, the frontman of the 1975, who has just offered to take his shirt off in order to give me a tattoo tour.
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