We’ll always be a duo... we’re like Sooty and Sweep!

The twins reveal all to former Doctor Who David Tennant. put the brothers on the radar of the top record companies.

They were asked to perform an impromptu audition atop a wooden desk in the Chrysalis boardroom, while a £ 50 video of Throw The ‘R’ Away, shot on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, helped land them their breakthrough appearance on Channel 4’s The Tube.

“Paula Yates introduced us as, ‘ Here’s something totally weird’,” laughs Hibernian fan Charlie. “She wasn’t wrong. We were always going to be fish out of water in anything we did. We went to the football at Easter Road the next day and people were coming up as we were buying a pie saying they saw us last night.”

No one had quite seen anything like them before.

But the siblings wanted to do things on their own terms, and central to that was singing in their native accent.

“It was a determination to do it our own way,” explains Charlie.

“Not ‘sod the consequences’ but just accept the consequences.”

KT Tunstall, just one of a number of big music stars paying tribute in the documentary, names I’m Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) as her favourite song.

But the tune that has got toes tapping the world over was created in no time on an early acoustic tour in Aberdeen.

“We were getting picked up in an hour,” confides Craig. “I sat down at an electric piano and it came in 45 minutes, the whole lot.

“One of the quickest songs I’ve ever written. It was just like it was writing itself.”

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