If it wasn't for university there would be no Long Blondes. They met while skipping lectures to read about 1940s film and ended up going out with each other because the sight of other students gave them the urge to slowly drown themselves. Then they decided to start a band together because, let’s face it, if you’ve spent the last three years on a media studies course you are never, ever going to get a decent job anywhere else.

Vice: You’re the first group of people to bunk off lectures to go to the library.
Dorian (guitarist): You could say that, yeah.

Was student life much fun?
I spent it pretty much alienated from the rest of the people there. University was the first time I realised that most people are very tiresome to get on with. That’s why we started the band—we were the only people who didn’t want to become breakfast TV presenters or weather girls. The Smiths were a better education than university. They taught me that the world is full of grinning idiots. If I had a message to students it would be: we’ve been there and we know the pain you’re going through.

Great. So basically, stay the fuck away from university?
No. I’d strongly advise you to go. You can spend every day looking around charity shops (!?!?).

TIM JONZE
Check thelongblondes.co.uk for dates and stuff.