The Indelicates had no problem trashing Art Brut's front-man Eddie Argos. We think it's nothing but a joke: a band as sweet as them can't be so ruthless.

London's band The Indelicates still don't have a full length album, but as far as the internet goes, they are all over the place – from MySpace to Last.fm to the blogsphere. If you read blogs like this one, there is a good chance you've heard their name before.

The Indelicates are Julia (Ex-Pipettes) & Simon. Their indie folk-rock is intelligent, witty & well written. They have become known over a single called "Waiting For Pete Doherty To Die" that had over 8,000 downloads from their webpage alone, but I found out about them later, while reading Eddie Argos's Guest List at Pitchfork Media.

I love Argos, and after he recommended them with such passion, I had to check them out. It seems like the two bands, Art Brut & The Indelicates, are good friends – Argos appeared in a video of The Indelicates and The Indelicates got a link to the Art Brut website from theirs.

Still, when I ask them about it, Julia was nice enough to say "Eddie is a good man, I like him a lot. Art Brut are very good, and yes, we probably have a similar message", but Simon was ruthless: "He’s a cunt. I hate all that clever clever stuff that’s about something. And bands that like each other – hippy twats", he said.

It's probably a joke, our 8hands octopus laughed quite a lot anyway. But I still wonder if I have a big beef story under my hands… Because of the doubt I've decided to let it go – after all, all we really want to know here at 8hnads is social networks info. We can play around with gossip later.

Do you enjoy social networks?

Julia: "I’ve got a Facebook, 5 MySpaces, a Last.fm, a Bebo, about 25 e-mail accounts, about 5 websites, erm… several Livejournals, I use them all, I meet and talk to different people on all of them, so they’re all very inspirational in their way! I love the net, I find it very freeing…"

Simon: "I’ve got a similar array of accounts which I find to be quite the opposite – irritations, for the most part, except the completely fake ones. I find that social networking is best for lying with".

But still, I'm sure that networks like MySpace/imeem/Last.fm helped you to achieve recognition.

Simon: "I’m not sure we have achieved recognition. Don’t heat magazine have to say something before it counts?"

Julia: "I think they are useful communication tools, and music sites are very good for streaming music. We’ve always given away most of our music in any case, so MySpace is useful mainly for being able to quickly check what someone is up to, what they sound like, and whether they’re worth seeing. The downside, I suppose, is that it removes the element of surprise at concerts… But I’m not sure that matters that much, seeing as there are so many bands at the moment".

Does it bother you that a lot of people that go to your shows have downloaded your music instead of buying the album?

Julia: "Not in the slightest, if it did bother me I’d be the biggest hypocrite around".

Simon: "Copyright will have to be rethought entirely in the next few decades. It’s a simple case of the weighing up of benefits – on the one side we can embrace the free exchange of data giving the majority of the human race access to all the information accumulated in their history, multiplying their intelligence, instituting tolerance and letting us walk as gods on the face of the earth; on the other, we can enforce copyright laws and a few wankers with guitars can get paid a bit more for their pretend ‘art’"...

Do you find new music online?

Simon: "The Thlyds are probably the best band on the internet".

Julia: "I really like The Flesh Happening at the moment. I haven’t been shocked by a band in, well, EVER, so them… Lily Rae who used to be in an excellent band called Bottle Rocket, she’s ace… I’ve mostly been reading this month, so the music’s a bit sparse…"

But I hope you'll still get the time to release your first album.

Julia: "Our album is due to be out in March of next year, but I don’t have any more information about who’s producing it / artwork / title yet…"

What would you do if you had eight hands?

Julia: "Rejoice in my new found ability to hit more notes on the piano".

Simon: "Go on the run from the sinister government agency who’d want to imprison me and give me probes and that. I won’t be used as a weapon, you hear!"