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I spoke to Lewis about the band.

Mal Whichelow: When and how did Air Drawn Dagger get together?

Lewis Budden: We originally started releasing music in 2015 after me and vocalist Maisie began

writing songs in the back of a cake shop in Sheffield before we cut our teeth playing to all
sorts of crowds -- from older punks at hardcore shows to young couples in tapas restaurants.
Wild time!

MW: How would you describe your music?

LB: We are often described as an electronic, punky, angst-pop collective. 'Electronic Emo' is also
thrown about.

MW: Who writes the songs? Is there a regular method to your songwriting or is there a degree
of spontaneity about it?

LB: Me and Maisie have always written acoustically or demoed together, but overall, we write
in loads of ways. Ross writes a bunch of ideas, or I will bring a rough skeleton of a song and

we will form it from there.