Jack Underwood, Sam Riveire and Charly Morris let their art-school mates decide the name for their band, and they came up with Le Tetsuo. That's probably the most arty-sounding collection of words we've seen since Godspeed! You Black Emperor. They make noisy music that's based around Le Tigre-like screams and jutty guitar riffs that turn pretty vicious for a band from Norwich. They also go to parties with celebrities like Steve Coogan, who pretended to be asleep while running his hand up the back of one of their friends... or something.

Hey guys, what's been up?

Jack: We had a record out in March, and we were pretty busy for about four months after that – pushing it and playing London quite a lot. We kind-of had a brief trough after that.

Sam: Right now we're writing material for the record next year. I think we're better suited to EPs. I don't think anyone would want to listen to a whole LP of our stuff. You can't really wash your dishes to it. Twenty minutes is about maximum, I'd say.

As a band are you scared of the credit crunch/crisis/painfully drawn-out economic death?

Jack: No, not really. I think it's just hype. I saw the papers today with all the arrows going down, but everyone's still buying their orange juice in the morning.

Charly: No, things are a bit more expensive actually. 

Yeah the KFC mini-fillet burgers are now £1.19 - they used to be an easy 99p.

Sam: That's a disaster for Jack. They've really hit him where it hurts.

Jack: It's because the chickens eat money, you see. They feed their chickens ON money, so money becomes more expensive. The fillet is also affected. Seriously though, it's about consumer confidence. If you deny that it's happening, you'll be OK.

Wow, you really seem to understand economics. So we heard you were in Holland recently. What's the best skunk you tried?

Sam: Our friend gave us his ten-bag that he couldn't even finish. He kept complaining about being in 'brain jail'. I think our smoking days are numbered: going into supermarkets high is really horrible. The lighting is way too bright. They should come up with some kind of mood lighting.

My barmaid friend told me that the world is definitely going to end in 2012. Apparently that whole magnetic-pole reversal thing combined with the London Olympics spells definite total annihilation. What would you guys do knowing that there are around four years left to live?

Jack: It's long enough to fuck up, isn't it? Long enough to make a real mess of things.

Sam: We'd take a lot of time off work. Actually, we probably wouldn't go into work for the last year.

Charly: I've recently started to shoplift again, so I'd probably expand on that - Tesco needs to get hit. I've never had a stupid haircut either, like a back-brushed blonde number, so I'd get one. And a tattoo.

Jack: The world's not going to end though, is it. I thought it was going to happen in 2000 – one let-down was enough. It's good not to think too much about the future.

Sam: Between rent day and rent day, that's pretty much my cycle.

It's our Forever issue - what, if anything, do  you think will last forever?

Jack: Smoking will last forever. Also those ring-things you get keeping your beers together.

Charly: Problems.

Sam: I think Nick Cave is going to last forever. The Fall, also. Mark E Smith is lasting forever.

Yeah, that guy just refuses to accept life's natural cycle. So speaking of such things, who made you want to make the music that you make?

Sam: Quite often you reach for people who you sound like or wished you sounded like, or other people have said that you sound like.

Well, as a group you guys mainly get English 'riot grrrl' group Huggy Bear.

Jack: I'd never listened to them until quite recently. Probably bands not as cool as that. Obviously The Pixies and The Breeders.

Sam: McClusky, that Welsh band? They were awesome. But mainly uncool 90s bands like Sleeper.

Le Tetesuo's got a myspace, too. Or see if you like their new video: