Cub Sport’s Tim Nelson and Sam Netterfield open up to Thomas Stichbury about falling in love, mixing business with pleasure and their trippy-sounding sex life…

Tim Nelson and Sam Netterfield

Being left alone in the company of a couple can often be a tad awkward, or at least a little trying, especially if they’re pulling out the PDAs, having a barney or failing to hide their feelings of seething resentment towards each other. On this occasion, however, Attitude happily gives the role of “third wheel” a spin to hang out with Tim Nelson and Sam Netterfield – or Bolan, as Tim affectionately refers to him – partners, married ones at that, and members of Aussie alt-pop band Cub Sport.

Following a last-minute change of location, after spotting a rodent scampering across the premises of the original suggestion, we gather at a cosy tea room run by a wondrously waspish woman who’s a cross between The Devil Wears Prada’s Miranda Priestly, Ab Fab’s Patsy and Mary from Gogglebox.

When the boys, both 29, enquire about vegan options, she bluntly tells them that there aren’t any, before adding that they look surprisingly healthy for vegans. Ouch. It’s the morning after their headline gig at London’s Scala and they are still surfing a wave of high emotion. “I nearly cried,” lead singer Tim begins. “These people are basically celebrating our love story and it’s something that we were ashamed of for so many years, so to reflect on where we’ve come from and to be in that moment is overwhelming. I looked over at Bolan and had to stop myself.”