Rupert Harrison had been at Oxford University for a year when he asked to switch courses. He had originally opted for physics, not because of a love for science, but because it offered the best chance of going to the same university as his bandmates.
“We were called The Full Monty, which was a great name until the film came out and people started to think we were strippers,” he says. “We played angsty rock and thought we were the successors to Radiohead.”