While the opening track to their self-titled EP, waste, may or may not be about Brexit, unpeople stress that they’re empathetic, and “you can’t just call people idiots, regardless of what they may have done to the infrastructure and economy…”
Meg: “We’re all – especially me and Jake – quite politically-minded. We like to educate ourselves on what’s going on.”
Jake: “We’re from dumps in the Midlands where we saw all our community centres get closed when we needed them the most.”
Meg: “But we exist in an echo chamber, right? People who, let’s say, voted for Brexit, I can’t put myself in that person’s position because they exist in a different echo chamber to me. The idea of that song with the line ‘Shoot yourself in the foot with the starting gun’ isn’t coming from a place of, ‘You’re an idiot, you shouldn’t have done that.’ It’s more, ‘I hate to say I told you so…’”
Jake: “It’s not my place to say, because why does my opinion matter more than anyone else’s? And also it’s very easy to get sold a lie on the side of a big red bus.”
Meg: “But we would like to say, on record, we hate the Tories.”