Augé also looks back at the ceremony with fond memories. “Actually, the best part of it is that you don’t know in advance. You don’t know until you are there and they call your name.” Awards aren’t something that the duo want to be reminded of all the time though; they’re more for the team behind them, that helps bring their ideas to life. “Xavier doesn’t actually like awards at home,” reveals Augé.

“Yeah, they are at the office,” De Rosnay admits. “I don’t want to work at home and see all those things. For me, it’s like having your picture on the wall — it just doesn’t make sense. It’s cool to be narcissistic, and we are all narcissistic a bit. But for me, this is too much of a show-off. And if you have guests at your home, it’s not something you want to put in their faces. In an office it is perfect, it’s a place of work, where you have clients, or whatever, it all makes perfect sense. But at home, it’s just too much for me.”

The duo do come across as genuinely grateful for the success they’ve had, but they also feel that their lives haven’t changed that much since they started making music some 15 years ago. “It’s funny, the life we lived before all this when we were graphic designers, it wasn’t that different than the lives we have as music makers today,” De Rosnay says.

“Because being graphic designers, we were already masters of our schedules, we were already working with things we liked, we were already picking the projects we wanted to work on, so it’s not that different. Of course, we have a better life now, but it was not so different. We don’t run after money. We don’t play 300 shows a year. It’s a choice, you can’t make this choice and then complain about it. We’ve never felt the need to think, ‘We need to play like this because this is what’s happening,’ or whatever. If it works for us and we want to do it, then we do it, and we, ‘knock on wood,’ hope we can continue this in the future. But honestly, it’s not the hardest job on earth.”

Breaking America

Justice have always had an affinity for playing in America, and they’ve always made a point to play in the US for each album tour. “I love playing in the US,” explains De Rosnay excitedly, as his eyes light up, “especially the festivals. We like Coachella. We think the hype is deserved. But we love to also play in the UK where people are...” “Responsive,” Augé interjects.

“You rarely play and nothing is happening,” De Rosnay adds. “I don’t have many memories of playing in the US and nothing happening, either. In the US they own the concept of entertainment, so maybe that’s why people are so into it, but in the UK they own the concept of partying, which is a bit different, but in the end — it produces the same kind of results.”