1. ‘Sick of Myself’ deals with some really raw and personal territory. Was it cathartic to finally get it onto a recording, or does that vulnerability create a nervousness when it’s permanently out there in the world?
Absolutely it’s cathartic. Songwriting is the best therapy for me. I’m not sure I’m nervous about the vulnerability, but I’ve always seen writing songs as the equivalent of having babies. I conceive them, I nurture them & then put them out into the world & hope that the world will treat them nicely.
2. There are some really powerful lines in there. Did those lines just appear to you, or did they take time to find, and did you know immediately it was something special?
Honestly, lyrics come to me out of nowhere. It’s the part of songwriting I’ve always found the easiest. I never sit down & force it. I never think, ‘oh, I want to write a song about something in particular.’ They often come to me in inopportune moments like when I’m in the shower or when I’m running! I end up with a phone full of voice recordings of me singing breathlessly into my phone which would probably sound quite disturbing out of context, haha! But I don’t know if I’ve got something until I take it to practice & we flesh it out as band,
3. ‘Lovebombs’ is about someone specific. Do you know if they have heard the song, would they know it’s about them, and what would their face be like when the realisation dawned?
I don’t know if they would have heard it but they’d definitely know it’s about them if they did! They’re a pretty private person so they probably wouldn’t be thrilled, but I figure if you’re in a band & date somebody who’s a songwriter, then you should know that it could well come back to bite you on the ass if you do the dirty on them! But there’s no resentment, there’s actually a positive song about them on my solo album which I put out last year called Major Chords which was written when we were first getting together. So this makes for a delighful / spiteful sequel, haha!
4. These two tracks are part of your debut album, due out later this year. Without giving too much away, is the album a continuation of the same emotional territory of these two songs, or does it go somewhere else altogether?
Oh I think we go to a lot of different places on the other tracks we’re currently recording. These two songs are quite personal even though they explore universal themes like sickness, heartbreak & more specifically, gender dysphoria. But there will be more political songs & some less personal lyrics more about the state of the world. Though even when I touch on politics it often tends to be from a more personal point of view & how it effects me as a queer transgirl in the current climate.
5. A lot has happened since the ‘Pink, White & Blue’ EP back in January 2025, in the ‘Dinkyverse’ and the wider world. What does the world right now make you want to write about most?
Oh goodness, the world right now makes me want to scream! What’s going on with the rolling back of trans rights & the bathroom ban & the general rise of fascism is making it a pretty terrifying world for people like me in 2026. We have a song called Rainbow Coloured Cop Car about false allies that we play live & have just recorded. Specific political songs are tricky currently because the world is moving at such a fast pace since Covid that they can be soon rendered irrelevant. Which is why I find writing personally about the way I see the world is more rewarding & is less likely to sound cliched or lame than if I just screamed expletives for three minutes, as tempting as it is!
