“AS LONG AS THE LABEL KEEP WRITING CHEQUES, WE’LL JUMP OFF BUILDINGS”

Luke Spiller doesn’t ‘do’ understated. When we meet The Struts’ frontman pre-gig, in their dressing room at London’s Forum, he’s wearing a sheepskin jacket, leather trousers and huge pink-and-black platforms, his black Noel Fielding crop shaggy from the tour bus. Like so many rock stars, he looks in proportion on enormous stages, but larger than life off them.

It’s curious to think that The Struts have been going for nearly a decade. Having dived into our line of vision in 2016 with the album (which they followed up with last year’s poptastic ), they’re one of the best things to happen to rock’n’roll in years. All glam threads and supersized tunes, they manage to seem lovably old-school à la mode at the same