The electro-pop trio are officially massive. As they release their glossy new album Every Eye Open, they tell all about being duped by Avril Lavigne, dealing with the trolls and coping with the loss of a beloved hamster
Lauren Mayberry’s hamster is dead. The Chvrches singer is grateful for the pictures she gets, from fans, of hamsters that look similar to the recently departed Gilbert, and for the messages asking how he is. She was pleased with the stuffed hamster dressed as a dragon that a fan brought her in Japan. But she doesn’t quite know how to break the big news. “People bring him up and I don’t want to be like, [whispers] ‘He’s dead.’ But he is now deceased. He had a good innings. He had a long, fruitful life.” Her bandmate Martin Doherty, known as Doc, adds his own tribute. “That fucker lived like a king. King Gilbert I.” The group’s third member, Iain Cook, nods gravely.
The electro-pop trio are sitting on a hill in a Glasgow park known locally as “the beach”. Or “the jakey”, depending on who you ask. Doherty explains that it’s where local drinkers spend their afternoons. “Don’t be alarmed,” he says. “Just so you know what you’re getting yourself into.” But it turns out what we’re getting into is a picture-postcard version of Scotland: there are no drinkers, just teenage bagpipers, all over the park, playing their own individual tunes. Not that people see Chvrches as a Scottish band, necessarily. “People bring it up in America, where a lot of people have Scottish roots,” Mayberry says. “But in the UK, not so much.” “I certainly felt like a Scottish band when we didn’t announce a Glasgow show the other day,” Doherty smiles. (They say there will be one soon.)
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