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The mysterious world of Two Shell: ‘Our pranks don’t mean we’re not sincere’
They promised us an in-person interview – then sent along two decoys. So who are the enigmatic musicians who make it so hard for fans to hear their thrillingly alien music?
They compare themselves to vape flavours: Sadboy Blue and Ego Death They weren’t born, for example: they popped out of a patch of Astroturf between Brixton and Loughborough Junction, and shortly afterwards performed their first ever set at a purgatory-like bus stop nearby, which they couldn’t leave until they became really great DJs. Two Shell’s publicist didn’t realise they had sent decoys, and when I run into him a couple of nights later, he says, with slight exasperation, that he really thought the duo were using this interview as an opportunity to give the jokes a rest for a second and just talk about their music. I head to the duo’s long-running ShellTek night at London’s Ormside Projects the day after my interview, courtesy of a token presented alongside my dud USB that would grant me entry every week, and am surprised to see that this release-week event is sparsely attended.
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