Where does your name come from?
William: We formed the band when we were quite young, about 6 or 7. It still does mean something but it’s become a bit more vague. Originally it was Misery Jets but we changed it to Mystery Jets.

For anyone who’s not heard your music before, how would you describe it?
William: Poppy. We’re a pop band, but I think at the same time we like to incorporate quite far out ideas.
Blaine: Yeah, I think pop is a good word, although pop encompasses lots of things. I mean we don’t sound anything like Girl’s Aloud.
William: But talking heads were a pop band
Blaine: I think the fun thing is to try and see what you can get away with.
William: Someone described as a futuristic soul band, and I really like that.

You’ve sold out across the country with this tour, that must be a real power trip for you?
William: Oh yeah, a massive power trip, I’ve got power suits waiting for me back in London, big shoulder pads. I’m gonna start ordering people about.

I’ve heard that you’re famous for trashing your dressing room and leaving an epic mess, any plans for this one?
Blaine: This happened once. We did a university gig and there’s no way we can make excuses, it was completely uncalled for.
William: I would just like to say that I was not involved, it was Blaine and Kai, they both had a little bit too much, you know, Coca Cola, too much in the blood sugar and got over excited and started twating each other with sandwiches.
Blaine: We did get charged like £300.
William: Quite right.
Blaine: It’s quite funny ’cause that story has obviously gotten online somewhere.

Well, it’s Wikipedia famous!
William: Really, when you type in Mystery Jets. Can anyone change your Wikipedia. So anyone can write the biggest load of nonsense..

But they moderate it...
Blaine: Checked by the powers that be.
William: Checked by the wicker man, I’d like to be a wicker man some day.

So have you always wanted to be in a band, or did you want to be anything else like an Astronaut or Bee Keeper?
William: Maybe we still don’t want to be in a band.
Blaine: I’m quite happy for the time being.
William: We’ll do it for another six months.

Then prime minister after that?
William: President of the United States. No, I think we love it.
Blaine: I think when it gets boring you change your name, or go off on a solo career.

Do you get many freebies?
William: Yeah we get Tracker Bars, and bags of grapes.
William: Can I ask you something; your piece of paper says Wessex Scene, what is Wessex? Is it West Essex?

No, it’s a region in England.
William: Oh, it should be West Essex.

In your song ‘Young Love’ you worked with Laura Marling, how did that come about?
William: It was really simple actually, we spent an afternoon at our producer Eril’s house and she came in and sang her part in 2 or 3 takes. It was all over in a few minutes.

What are you going to do on stage tonight for her part in the song?
Blaine: Apparently there was a competition organised where everyone sent in videos of singing Laura Marling’s vocal part, but we didn’t know about it. But we only found out about it a few days before the tour so there were a lot of unhappy Laura Marling look-alikes in the crowd.
William: We didn’t know about it so it couldn’t really happen.

The first song of yours that I heard was ‘Can’t Fool Me Dennis’, Is there a Dennis and how did he fool you?
William: Henry, Can’t fool me Dennis, did he try and fool you?
Henry: Em no.
William: I think Dennis was fooling himself.
Henry: He was a guy who died young, and it’s a song about living your life, and he actually said, do anything you want as long as it makes sense.

Do you have any exciting tour anecdotes you’d like to share with us?William: We get asked this a lot and my mind always goes blank. Everyday something chaotic happens because being in a band that kind of thing happens.
Kai: Our toilet got blocked and Trigger (tour manager) put his hand down there.
William: You’re joking Trigger put his hand down there, he pulled it all out, but it was only liquid wasn’t it?
Kai: There was sick and red wine
William: When did that happen?
Kai: It was the two Daises, we had these two Daises, two girls from Twickenham called Daisy, and they became instant Henry groupies because of their postcode.
Blaine: ‘Laughs’
William: I don’t remember them.
Kai: I went to the toilet, it was a combination of blood red wine, I tried to flush it and it all got wedged.
*Groans from the room*
Kai: I go "Trigger we’ve got a problem with our toilet", he goes "oh fucking hell", he gets a bin bag, and in one swoop he throws it outside, and Nick the driver is freaking out and he says don’t worry Nick it’s sorted.

Do you have anything for the next album yet?
William: We’ve got a few songs but I don’t think we’ve really grasped what the album is or what it’s going to be or what the artwork’s going to be. It’s way too early. I don’t think it’s exciting going into a project knowing what the outcome is going to be, you go into it not knowing, that’s why you do it. I think that’s why you write things, you create things, ’cause you don’t really know what’s going to happen. It could be woeful or amazing, I think it’s that risk that’s exciting.