how are you strange times a very strange yeah the strangest but I'm glad to see you yeah I'm really glad to see you too how are you you know as same as everyone else just weirded out and trying to kind of get on with it when did it hit you well I kind of went away anyway just before it all started like kicking off and then then when the tour got cancelled I was kind of like okay well I suppose you know make music again that
was not remotely the plan but and I'm very lucky to be able to do that that's one thing that I'm very hyper very aware of that you know a lot of people just can't just don't have on fortunate enough privileged enough to be in that position so yeah we're making stuff I mean I don't know if I'm making like a new 1975 record but to be honest with you like I wouldn't be surprised not like an album but like I don't know the
me and Georgie here and we had we had a bunch of things that we were going to be working on kind of later on in the year anyway that we just kind of bumped up to now so that's that's what good we're about to play The Daily Mail you know you've got a couple of Tom your crushes in here on this playlist you've got a couple that'll put me head me in pieces within the first two bars I made this playlist the other night and
then we've been watching Ozark on Netflix and that songs actually on those huh where are you up to right now I done it I smashed it out I think I've like finished youtube I think I've finished it it's a nightmare I've got nothing left in my life so Matthew I have to ask you is I mean I'm assuming that notes on a conditional form is now done because every time I've asked you that question probably a dozen times in the last 18
months it's been it's been getting incrementally closer but we've never had it's a complete conversation is it complete yeah it's been done it's been it sent off about a month ago now like if not over so like that's been that's been done and it was done way before this kind of situation really kicked off so listening to it in the context of this has been quite uh weird because it feels like a different it's not changed
shape it just feels like it's kind of solidified even more like it kind of makes even more sense which which is weird but so it's it's um I think it's my best record but that's my job to think that you know it's what does releasing music feel like to you right now compared to how it would have felt a couple of months ago releasing a record is fine because that's like a long-form expression that I know people genuinely emotionally invest in and I
think that people do need those kind of things right now doing something that feels like inherently self-interested like promoting it like outside of like this for example like I know you and we're known to know each other and even it's slightly different doing something like this but you know like just like promoting yourself at this time feels I'm just very hyper aware of self interest it just is very glaring to me
when I see it so I'm trying not to be um I'm trying to pay tribute to the situation of all times to be honest with you I just think that now is a real time for us to kind of like extend is much kind of like compassion and sympathy in like every direction you know I mean because people aren't kind of it's not Top Trumps at the moment you know I mean and you can't like you know I can't empathize with somebody um who had all
like I mean you can't afford to eat like whether that's through privilege or luck or whatever like I I can't am truly sympathize with that sight because you know it's it's not part of my experience I can empathize with for example people who have been working incredibly hard towards like one thing and to have that taken away and to have to deal with the emotional and the financial implications of what that requires and stuff like
that and you know so it's kind of like I think that everybody and just needs to be kind of how I've seen people which is kind of like you know like just quite caring so you um you and George you can George a kind of tucked away in quarantine together which is which is convenient that's great that you found yourselves in the same place because not a lot of creatives have actually been able to do that there's a lot of bands
just placed all over the place trying to do it by zoom or whatever so you guys are in a you know you're in a in it like you said at the very beginning and in a very soft for way away your already kind of in a privileged spot you've got your buddy around you've got your creative partner around what can I ask what what has been coming out like what have you been making what's been the mood and the feel of it like I've
been like kind of organizing what songs of the old ones that kind of exist on the internet that I'm gonna put out as like an official like the first album that kind of never came out but I'm gonna follow it with like there was so much Drive like like later in between Drive like I do kind of early 1975 stuff that just fell at the wayside and I kind and no one's heard any of that you know we've we've been through some deep
emotional music we've been through stuff that you know I've never heard before we're on a real journey of discovery with Matthew Healy right now and it's been it's just lovely to see you man you know safe and well you and George and you know you staying close to friends and family and na using this time to sorta to continue to sort of solidify those connections that can often go you know go by the wayside as
we as which as we strive through life totally I mean I like I'm also like really really intellect technology it's like something that really excites me and I think that people are kind of being like forced by this situation in order to kind of like extend their communication with people through different types of technology that normally aren't used because the only technology we really like is once that we can like integrate immediately into
our life and if we have to like slow down we get a bit like bored of its we don't really try it out but now people are like trying technology in a more kind of long-form way so I think that we're going to have this massive like desire for a different experience of Technology which i think is quite exciting but it might be em that might be the silver lining to an actual apocalypse so I was gonna ask you if you've if you've sort of applied
yourself to any new learning I'm cooking a lot I am cooking a lot tells me you were always quite tidy in the kitchen yeah I'm pretty good it's kind of my I really like it like so I've to be honest with you George is probably better and that he's got like OCD so you're not gonna beat someone like that yeah go give George a big hug for us man and thanks for taking the time to share this with us thanks man you