The Molotovs vs The World: 'If you hate our band, that's fine'

On an unassuming drizzly Monday night on Oxford Street, sandwiched between a branch of Ann Summers and a Japanese stationery shop, there’s a youth rebellion going on. The Molotovs — the brother-sister duo of 17-year-old vocalist/guitarist Mathew and 19-year-old bassist Issey Cartlidge — are ripping the belly of the 100 Club a new one. Mathew, tailored in a sharp brown suit and skinny tie, bleached-blonde Lego haircut cropped in a neat square around his face, looks like a young Paul Weller reincarnate. Issey, sporting a Libertines-style red military two-piece, massive swoops of eyeliner and an equally peroxide-soaked ’do that she whips with practiced expertise, stalks the stage pouting and glaring like a hybrid between Debbie Harry and Agyness Deyn.