What do you think you’re best at doing as a band?

Caroline: Eating Tacos?

Aaron: Eating Tacos

C: We’re good at other things too like making puns. It gets a bit out of control

A: Yeah, it get’s a bit punny.

Do you have a classic?

C: When we were on tour in the US everywhere we went to we’d try and incorporate the name of the place into a phrase: Like when we were in Omaha Patrick would check out Omahotties and when we were at a club in Chicago we we called it the Chicaghoes.

A: In Dresden, we were all Dresden black.

I like what you did there.

Do you prefer touring or recording?

You have a lot more control over your life when you’re recording whereas on the road it’s this mysterious combination of feeling very isolated, seeing strangers every day, like only strangers, and also not having any privacy because you’re always with these people that know you so well and know if you’re lying or know if you’re pissed off. You just can’t get away from that.

I guess, in Britain, you’re always associated with the stream of bands that have been coming out of Brooklyn, but you guys aren’t from Brooklyn originally are you?

C: None of us are. None of the bands with the exception of Amazing Baby. One of them was born and raised a Brooklynite.

What about Boy Crisis?

C: No, actually Leah the guitarist is from New York but the rest of them aren’t. People come to Brooklyn for the scene. The scene isn’t made up of locals. It’s a common misconception. Brooklyn is really a hub, a meeting place for artists. They’re attracted there because the music scene exists so it’s self-perpetuating. People seem to have the idea that in Brooklyn there’s something in the water.

If someone was talking about chairlift further down the line what would you want them to be saying?

Patrick: We’d want them to be talking about the multiple records we’ve put out and how each one’s gotten better. Hopefully this is the worst album we’ll ever make.

What band’s do you like?

C: I was so excited about M83. I actually broke into their dressing room about a year ago. I somehow got past the door guy at the Williamsburg Music Hall and walked right up to him in the dressing room. I gave him my card and said ‘Hi, my name’s Caroline. I’m in a band called Chairlift and I love your music and we’d love to tour with you.’ I did it all in French as well. So I sat down and chatted with them for a while and they were so stoked to meet an American who spoke French. Then I got an e-mail about a month later saying they’d heard our music and liked it and could we send them a CD. We’ve been corresponding since then.