Let’s Wrestle write shambolic pop songs about sniffing glue, pissing on cars and hating girls. Their tough talking is tempered by them looking like smiley twelve-year-olds. And the violent challenge their name implies is also misleading. They’re actually comic nerds who named themselves after a book of David Shrigley drawings. We sat down with singer Wesley in a pub in Camden and discussed hard man things like punching people and killing animals.

Listen: Let’s Wrestle – “I Won’t Lie To You”

Vice: You seem like nice boys. Why all the aggro?
Wesley: Most of our songs are basically about girls. I get very easily frustrated with girls and I get very angry very easily. So I basically bottle up all of my girl anger and then write really nasty songs about them. 

That’s good, I guess. So, what have you been up to today?
I’ve been watching High School Musical with my brother. It’s the most horrible thing I have ever seen in my life. I wanted to slit my wrists while watching it. Loads of people like it in an ironic way, but I just think it’s fucking hideous.

What films do you like?
I watched Barbarella: Queen of the Universe the other day. I love that film. Although it should be called Barbarella: Space Whore because she gets off with so many guys!

Have you ever killed an animal with your bare hands?
Not with my bare hands, but I did once shoot a bird with an air rifle by mistake. I have this cousin who has a really big air rifle and the last time I saw him he basically forced me to shoot it. He was like, “Go on! Shoot something! Just do it!” So I shot into the air and miraculously hit a bird. The worst part was that it didn’t completely die, so I had to shoot it again while it was wriggling on the ground.

– Let’s Wrestle will perform at The Old Blue Last on Monday February 11 to mark the release of their new EP In Loving Memory Of.

KARLEY SCIORTINO