Wikipedia will have you believe that this Floridian five-piece are of the Indie Rock persuasion. That description would be selling them short.

Truth is, it’s hard to define Black Kids. Hailing from Jacksonville in American’s sunshine state, they’re a brother/sister combo with a twist - vocalists Reggie and Ali Youngblood are joined by bassist Owen Holmes, drummer Kevin Snow and keyboardist Dawn Watley.

Cranking out their unbelievably upbeat and unique brand of pop – a crazy mishmash of the Go! Team, The Cure and Motion City Soundtrack – they’ve caught the attention from media and pop royalty on both sides of the Atlantic.

Their debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, was available for free via the band’s MySpace. Signing to Almost Gold Recordings in February, Black Kids have finally made their way over to the UK, with their catchy-as-fuck single I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You set to hit shelves at the start of April.

We caught up with Black Kids before their show with Kate Nash at Lincoln’s Engine Shed to find out what it’s like being the ‘new girls in school...’

Being on the road with Kate Nash must be pretty hectic; how’s your day been so far?
Reggie: “It’s been a pretty mundane day, to be honest. We’ve just been travelling; we only got into Lincoln about three o’clock this afternoon. We stayed in Carlisle after [the show in] Glasgow last night. So yeah, we’ve just been travelling.”
Owen: “Last night’s show was really good, though. A lot of fun.”

Is this your first time touring the UK?
Reggie: “No, this is probably our fourth visit or so to the UK in the last six months…”

How do you think you’ve been received over here?
Reggie: “Because of our, erm… unusual circumstances [Laughs] we’ve had pretty good shows. I guess at the few headliners we’ve had they’ve been at smaller venues, but they’ve been really packed out.”
Owen: “We’ve pretty much just fallen on this tour with Kate [Nash] which is amazing. We’re getting to play some pretty big venues to some new audiences, which is… amazing.”

How did the opportunity to support on the Kate Nash tour come about?
Reggie: “She covered one of our songs on French radio, and she contacted us and said ‘Hey, I covered your song on the radio, hope you don’t mind!’  So I dunno, I guess we’ve been on her radar for quite a while now, so when her tour came along she called us up and asked us along. And we said yes, obviously.”

Do you feel more comfortable playing to existing fans or do you like the challenge of hitting audiences that might not even have heard your name before, let alone your songs?
Reggie: “We do like being, y’know, the new girl in school. We like the attention. We’re really terrible flirts, too, so, I dunno. It’s nice to have a little loyal gathering, sure. But it’s good to be thrown at new audiences too.

“We’ve been playing some moderately sized venues supporting these huge groups to unusual audiences. It’s a lot of fun. And we’re going to be headlining our own tour sorta June or July time here in the UK, and hopefully hitting a lot of the festival circuits.”

So what can we expect from a Black Kids show?
Reggie: “Bedlam. Absolute bedlam.”
Owen: “Unprofessionalism… [Laughs]”
Reggie: “[Laughs] yeah, unprofessional bedlam, some erotic…”
Owen: “Some homoerotic cabaret…”
Reggie: “And somewhere in there, some awesome, spastic pop-songs.”

And what are you expecting from tonight’s show?
Owen: “Tonight, I dunno. We’ve never been to Lincoln before; we seem to just be stuck in the suburbs - I guess we’ll find out.”

So, are there any grand plans for the near future?
Owen: “After the tour with Kate we’re going into the studio with Bernard Butler from Suede down in London. Fingers crossed, it’ll have ten hit tracks. We’ve already recorded a couple of tracks that’ll be our next two singles.”

Are you looking forward to the writing and recording process?
Reggie: “For the most part it’s written and ready to go, but this band has only been in the studio together once before, so who knows what we’ll expect. But the best is when you think you’ve got a song down, and then it’s like ‘woah, wouldn’t it be radical – because we say radical [Laughs] – wouldn’t it be radical if we did it like this instead of this…’. And it works out. That’s cool.”

Do you think you’ve changed in your time in the band?
Reggie: “[Laughs] Y’know, the very first bands we were ever in, it was all about the merchandise. We were all ‘fuck, yeah, we’re gonna have t-shirts and records and this and that….’ And by now we’re just kinda like, ‘let’s just play’. I don’t think between us we’ve ever even had a 7” out, so for our single to be out July 7th.”
Owen: “[Interrupting] No, no, the single’s out April 7th!”
Reggie: “Shit yeah, sorry. The single’s out April 7th, and then to be having our album coming out in July. It’s crazy.”
Owen: “And the single’s going to have a 7” version, too! Which is crazy…”

So have you not got merchandise at the show tonight?
Reggie: “True to form, no. We’ve always been so half-assed. I guess… we… don’t like… money. [Laughs] We just don’t want it. We were going to do kissing booths instead, a pound for a smooch.”

Is there anything else you’d like to plug apart from your single?
Owen: “Anything I’d like to plug…? I don’t think so. Gay Rights, PETA. That’s about it.”
Reggie: “I think eventually – and this isn’t something we want to spring on people right away, ‘cause we don’t want to scare them off – but by the time our third single or so comes out, we are going to start spreading the Gospel, sooo…. Right? [Laughs]”
Owen: “Yeaaah, I know that’s my plan, anyway….”
Reggie: “But no, I guess we stay away from this sort of stuff. We only deal with issues of the heart...”
Owen: “The groin - issues of the heart and the groin.”
Reggie: “Yes, as Owen so charmingly put it, issues of the heart and the groin. [Laughs] Your eloquence is unsurpassed…”