You might have problems remembering how to spell their names, but their catchy pop tunes stick like glue, as do their hard-hitting lyrics. Covering all the most important human issues, from reptilian conspiracy theories to the eroticization of the finance sector, Bourgeois and Maurice are the perfect antidote to mainstream pop. We talked to them about being made miserable by social networks, writing a song for Robin Thicke and performing for Royal Baby George (NB only one of these things has actually happened).

KA: You have a great track on your album The Third called Social Networks (make me feel shit sometimes)- do they? Are they a necessary evil when you're in the entertainment business?

B&M: Well, the constant barrage of people marketing their lives at you can be overwhelming for even the biggest narcissists (which we both are). So in that sense, yes they do make us feel shit, sometimes. It's easy to get lost in a wormhole of comparison and self-critique as you're looking through the holiday snaps of people you've barely met.

On the plus side when we were professional stalkers in the 1990s we used to have to lurk outside people's windows for hours, so at least now we can do it from the comfort of our sofa, Pot Noodle in hand.

It is a bit of a necessary evil in our line of work. Our management basically forced us to be more active on Social Networks because apparently it worked for One Direction and Justin Bieber - they both purchased their fan bases online and now their fans must work as slaves, praising and congratulating their masters, or else they're e-whipped. Clever marketing.

We're pretty upset about our lack of Trolls though. You haven't really made it until your YouTube comments board is full of grammatically dubious insults and threats. Fingers crossed we'll get there some day.

KA: Another great song of yours is Tax me- about the erotic charge of a tax return. What would you put a tax on if you could?

B&M: Maybe a tax on tax? Like the way you can get insurance for your insurance. I wouldn't be surprised if George Osborne is already thinking it up.

KA:You've been described as 'professional weirdos'- do you have to work at being weird and subversive or does it just come naturally?

B&M: We've been called that, because we wrote it. Does that mean it's contrived or subversive? Or both? 

KA: We love your shiny costumes- as London Fashion Week approaches, do you have any tips on designers who give good sequin?

B&M: Erdem's A/W13 collection contained one of the most incredible black sequinned coats ever to grace a catwalk. Unfortunately he is yet to donate it to our worthy cause, which just goes to show how vacuous and selfish fashion really is. So instead we'll be spending LFW either on stage at Soho Theatre or disappearing in to the aforementioned Facebook wormhole, patiently waiting for external validation.

KA: Do you get recognised off-stage or are do you disguise yourselves in hoodies and jeans?

B&M: Maurice regularly falls out of taxis in an ungainly manner in desperate attempts to be recognised and for the paparazzi to shove a camera up her skirt. There are yet to be any paparazzi waiting of her, but she'll keep trying. Offstage Bourgeois is often mistaken for Ryan Gosling's slightly less good-looking-but-actually-really-clever brother.

KA: Are there any popstars you'd like to write a song for? Or who you'd like to see perform a cover of one of your tracks? Miley Cyrus might be up for 'social networks make me feel shit sometimes'..?

B&M: Yeah we were actually hoping to work with Miley on her next single but it didn't happen. Apparently she's decided to do a cover of X-Ray Spex's 'I Am a Cliché' instead - we respect her decisions as an artist. We're hoping Robin Thicke will cover our new song 'I'm Gross' but we haven't actually written it yet.

KA: What are your plans for the future? Do your parents still try and suggest you get a 'proper job'? Will you still be performing when you're writing songs about stairlifts and hearing aids?

B&M: We will carry on writing music and attempting to force people to listen to it for as long as the authorities allow. If that doesn't work out Maurice plans to do some saucy stand up for hen parties & Bourgeois will be a kids TV presenter.  

KA: You recently performed at The London Wonderground, where I hear there have been a fair few celebrities in the audience. Who would you most like to see in the audience at Sugartits?

B&M: Royal Baby George. If he can see the show at a young age there may be hope for the future yet.

Catch Sugartits at Soho Theatre 9th-21st September.