Joe Lenzie: We’d signed with 3Beat about six months before and put out a single called Rudeboy, which got a bit of traction on specialist radio and went on the BBC Radio 1 playlist. That was a feat because it was quite an underground, raw-sounding jungle track.

That was our biggest moment and we felt we would at least get some bookings off the back of it, but our agent couldn’t get us any gigs. We were pretty skint and ...