So firstly, you’ll be joining us this weekend at Westfest 2008 to play in the DSI hosted V.I.P. arena. How does it feel to be on at peak time of DSI’s first official lineup?

Rob: Absolutely fantastic, we were thrilled just to be asked to play, so being given the peak time set is very flattering.

Which of you two led the way for the other into the DJ world?

Rob: Dave decided that it’d be a good idea to spend all his hard-earned money on some decks, I wasn’t that interested initially but started messing around with them out of curiosity – a few years later we were playing together in Spain.

You’ve been playing together for over 10 years now. The club scene has obviously gone through many changes since it started. Where did your musical tastes start, and where would we find you today?

Dave: As a teenager I remember Rob taking the piss out of me for listening to “Sesame’s Treat”, an old rave classic. A couple of days later I caught him jumping around in his bedroom to it. He would have been about nine years old at the time.

Rob: Musically we’ve always had the same philosophy – if it’s good then we’ll play it. We try not to keep to one particular style, it’s good to keep an open mind and be diverse.

You’ve spent four of your years in Ibiza. What are the best (DJ!) memories you’ll keep from the White Island?

Dave: There’s so many. Early in our first year we were among the winners of a DJ competition, we got to play at one of the Es Paradis opening parties, that was pretty special.

Rob: We played a set at a worker’s party in our fourth year, the decks were set up on the back of a “Red Bull” Hummer which overlooked a swimming pool. That was a good laugh.

A really special moment for us though was hearing a bootleg that we’d done a few weeks earlier played at Eden, the resident DJ at the time (Alex Ellenger) called us into the booth so that we could jump around with him.

We absolutely love your sets in the DSI office. Tim will even trade in an hour of Steps or ABBA to listen to you. What would be the best way to describe to a clubber what they will get from a ‘Marchant brothers’ set?

Dave: Something a bit different on each occasion, if we’ve got an early set and we’re warming up then it’ll be a bit progressive, a closing set might include a few vocal classics – Westfest will be no holds barred.

How do you find using DSI to promote yourselves, and has it played a contribution to your bookings?

Rob: DSI has been invaluable, after returning from our final year in Ibiza we found it difficult to get work in London for a couple of years, but we persisted and eventually the work became more regular. DSI was always the first port of call, the vast majority of contacts we’ve made have been through this site.

With there being so much choice of networking sites to use in order to promote yourself, how do you decide which ones are worth the investment of time?

Dave: Facebook is ok, but as it’s not a “nightlife” related site there’s only so much you can do to promote yourself, we only really use it to send mixes to friends. DSI is where we’ll look for gigs.

How do you both feel about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre.

Rob: Appalling, I’m sure Delia Smith is responsible.

Dave: Why not just concrete the whole thing over?

What has been the best gig you’ve ever had to play, and what was it that made it so special?

Dave: Before it closed last year we played at Turnmills for a party called Licked, that was something else. I’ve never seen an entire room jump in unison before.

And in the natural order of process, what has been the worst?

Dave: We played a couple of pretty unsuccessful gigs at The Telegraph in Brixton – our mates and the bar staff were the only people in there.

Has your mum had to unplug the shower plughole again yet?

Rob: They had to get a plummer in a few years ago, I’ve got balls like a camel.

It was Dave wasn’t it? We think this because he seems to fall asleep everywhere.

Rob: That was at our residency in Ibiza, proof that I did most of the bloody work.

What have you been getting up to on the production side of things, and what’s around the corner in 2009?

Dave: We’re both so busy at the moment it’s hard to find the time to produce, or more honestly learn to produce.

Rob: It’s definitely something we’re looking to do more in the future - it’s a skill in it’s own right so we’ll have to devote a lot of time learning and practising how to do it properly.

To wrap things up, where can our lot hear some of your stuff, and keep up to date with you?

Rob: Information on upcoming gigs and mixes can be downloaded from robmarchant.co.uk – as I mentioned earlier Dave is so lazy I end up doing most of the mixes.

Dave: Piss off.