Ought: from university joke to post-punk touring machine

The band who made one of 2015’s best albums are committed to being serious – but also to having fun. The Montrealers talk about ‘disrupting bureaucracy’, challenging their fans and spotting an Arctic Monkey at one of their gigsGathered around a curry-laden table at the Brudenell Social Club in the student area of Leeds, the four members of the Montreal band Ought are remembering how it was a student protest – in Quebec, 2012, over tuition fees – that was the m