Still, there are positives and negatives. It's the first day of spring, it's not raining, and Blue Bendy are "feeling fresh and pretty floral". Alongside scribbling their names across hundreds of records, they've been looking into renting swords and suits of armour for a music video. Maybe it is pretty glamorous, after all.

The band's debut album, 'So Medieval', is a testament to their unconventional approach. It's a glorious sonic labyrinth, a clash of genres that sounds like an olden-days rock opera scored by a band raised on a healthy dose of psychedelics.

"I think we had the core of 'Cloudy', 'The Day I Said You'd Died' and 'Come On Baby, Dig!' written before our EP 'Motorbike' came out in 2022," Joe recalls, shedding light on the album's long gestation period. "We were certainly playing 'in progress' versions of these at all the gigs supporting the EP release. They were the first three we recorded.