Confidence Man: ‘If you’re not going to dance, get off the dance floor. It pisses me off’

Confidence Man’s Sugar Bones and Janet Planet (front) and Reggie Goodchild and Clarence McGuffie (back). ‘We quickly realised that them sinisterly sitting in the backdrop while we strut around is visually quite powerful,’ Bones says. Photograph: Jamie Heath

One of the most Googled questions about Confidence Man is whether Janet Planet and Sugar Bones are siblings, or a couple. The extrovert singers, innocently sipping their coffees across the table from me, both certainly have dramatic dance moves and playful fashion in their DNA, and a love for performance that clearly goes beyond their live shows.

Quite commonly, you’ll read that Planet and another band member, Reggie Goodchild, are siblings. But today, Planet and Bones insist that it is they who are brother and sister – though immediately the truth of that is hurled in the air.