Clean Bandit: Britain's biggest pop group on Labour, Israel and female masturbation

The band’s reliance on star vocalists means ‘most people don’t know much about us’. But it turns out they’re more politically vocal than most pop phenomena

Sequestered in the corner of an east London restaurant, Clean Bandit are having a hard time describing their fans. “Age-wise, it’s very broad,” says cellist, producer, and de facto front-person Grace Chatto. “It doesn’t feel like it’s any particular type of person – it’s just a big group of, er, random people,” laughs producer Jack Patterson. With a frankly ludicrous 4bn global streams making them one of the UK’s most successful bands, their difficulty in finding a neat catch-all is pretty understandable.

In accordance with modern pop rules, these fans have given themselves a collective noun – “fandits” – and while Grace is adamant that they’re “really nice” and “don’t battle with other fandoms”, Patterson is reminded of a more sinister experience. “This one fan wrote to all my friends saying she had a dark secret about me,” he says, pushing the dregs of a caesar salad around his plate. “Then she sent a photo that was meant to be proof of something,” laughs his brother Luke, the group’s drummer. “But it wasn’t even you.”

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