Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘How can I view death purely in a negative way when someone I loved is dead?’

Childhood friends who would finish each other's sentences, Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth were growing apart. Then Hollingworth's boyfriend died aged 22. The pop duo explain what they learned in a devastating year

Let's Eat Grandma arrive in a cafe after their Guardian photoshoot, looking exactly like a pair of pop stars. Jazzed up in opulent jewel tones and immaculate eyeliner, they are both tall - about 5ft 9in - but the resemblance ends there. Rosa Walton has the plump red curls of a 40s movie star, while Jenny Hollingworth channels something of the young Kate Bush.

They find it funny, being back in band mode after three years away, says Hollingworth, because we view ourselves as just ..."