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Multiple choice. Did your last Tinder date end in a) an unexpected ghosting, b) regretful sex in a Travelodge, c) three torturous hours in a Yates’s enduring someone defending Tommy Robinson or d) a trip to Seoul to film the video for your K Pop inspired debut single?

Did you answer mostly D? Really? Are you taking this quiz seriously? Then you must be Theo Spark, lemon-haired singer with Brixton synth-pop duo Wooze. Theo met director Nuri Jeong on Tinder and ended up hiring her to film the video for ‘Hello Can You Go’ in the neon back-streets and karaoke booths of the South Korean capital, a long way from the disused Brixton builder’s depot that he and co-Wooze Jamie She have used as a studio since forming late in 2017 as part of the Muddy Yard Collective. The song sounds fittingly exotic too – the band claim it’s a 21st Century update of Korea’s drummer-and-singer storytelling tradition known as Pansori, but to these ears it resembles a 21st Century update of Stephen ‘Tin Tin’ Duffy’s stupendous 80s synthpop records. It even reads like a Tinder date too: “Dan, meet my friend Ella/She’s in the public sector/Dan is a hairdresser/Well aren’t you glad you met her?” sings Theo over tumbling K Pop keyboards, lashings of synth funk fuzz and Supergrassic backing vocals mis-hearing Simon Harris’ ‘(Bass) How Low Can You Go’. A wheeze, Wooze.

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