Separating electro-pop duo Robots In Disguise (RID) from their Mighty Boosh alter-egos can be tricky.

With their art-school haircuts, theatrical eyeliner and tongue-incheek lyrics, it is hard to know for sure where disdainful Kraftwerk Orange band members Neon and Ultra end and the real-life (if falsely monickered) Dee Plume and Sue Denim begin.

Artfully charmless album titles such as Get RID don't help.

In fact, the girls were Robots In Disguise long before they were invited to cameo in The Mighty Boosh. It's just that the latter is now a household name, whereas RID are still, to most, "those girls from The Mighty Boosh".

Talking to The Argus en route from a gig in the electrostronghold of Herefordshire (who knew?), Plume says: "You have to have some angle, especially when you don't have the backing of a big label that's throwing loads of money at marketing you.

"The Boosh was great to be in and those parts were written for us and are about us, basically. But we're not really like that - we don't take ourselves that seriously.

"We're down and dirty, rolling around on stage and playing guitars."

The duo are currently on tour to promote third album We're In The Music Biz.

Produced by Chris Corner (Sneaker Pimps/I Am X), the album follows the usual RID formula of shouty, would-be Kim Deal harmonies, punk riffs, driving drums and "ironic" lyrics.

Plume says it is more grown-up than their previous work.

Indeed, between the party-girl superficiality of The Sex Has Made Me Stupid ("Tequila's made me stupid / the grass has made me stupid / success has made me stupid / forever's made me stupid") and Can't Stop Getting Wasted, there are some less poppy influences at work, as demonstrated on I Don't Have A God.

"We recorded it in Berlin so it's got a Germanic influence and it's quite dark," Plume says.

RID are a band that inspire devotion primarily from teenage girls - hardly surprising when you hear previous songs such as Boys ("Let us celebrate the foreign glamour of boys / Their allure is left unexplained") and La Nuit, whose French lyrics lend an ill-deserved sheen of sophistication to what is essentially a celebration of vodka jellies and k n i c k e r - flashing.

"I think it's a good thing that there's a band girls can get into - and boys can see girls on stage, too," Plume says.

"I'd always wanted to see if a girl band could work because I used to love going to gigs and I'd always think, Where are the girls?'"

RID also have a nice line in theatrical stage outfits, again blurring the boundaries between band and Boosh.

Do they worry that people take their music less seriously because of their attention to their "look"?

Plume says: "I think it happens sometimes, because people think we are fashion ponces, which I really hate, but I'm into visual performers.

"When people come and see a band there should be a visual aspect to it and if there isn't, for me, I find that boring and you've missed half of what performance is about.

"I'm into the idea of fantasy and you can't really do that without dressing up. That's how you transport people out of reality."

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