The 1975 have had many names before finding fame, but there remains one that got away.

"Watching Pretty In Pink made me want to be a teenager right away, and I also wish that was the name of the band," says Matt Healy, singer with the Manchester quartet.

"We want to make an album that will make people feel the way we did at the end of movies like it or The Breakfast Club, that emotion. Our album is going to be a very romantic record and if wasn't for John Hughes films we wouldn't have that sound."

Their most recent single, the charging The City, could certainly soundtrack an image of Judd Nelson striding into the sunset, arm raised in triumph. Yet there is more to the band than that, and the desire to replicate the dynamics of Hughes films has led to surprising places, from the moody, saxophone-charged Me to the ambient, dreamy Undo.

An album isn't due until September, but there has been considerable excitement surrounding the band already. They've just released their fourth EP, will play to a sold- out Oran Mor in Glasgow on Monday night (a September O2 ABC gig is already booked in too) and have been chosen to support the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park this summer as well as making their debut at T in the Park.

However, while recent developments have gone extremely swiftly, the band themselves have been slogging away for some time, under names like Bigsleep, Drive Like I Do and the Slowdown.

"Our line-up has stayed the same and we've evolved stylistically but we've never really come out as a new band or anything like that," says Healy.

"The bare bones of Chocolate or Sex go back to when I was about 19 [he's now 24], but all the songs have evolved so much since then. That's why we love the album so much – every song on there was, at one point, the most important song in our lives."

Healy admits to being an emotional person, and it's unsurprising that sudden fame has taken him aback somewhat.

"The success has been quite difficult to take in," says Healy. "I think we've actually become more introverted, and we've found solace in our relationships with one another, because everything else has become so exaggerated and amplified.

"We started out in my bedroom and seven months ago we were still there, so we're trying to take it a day at a time, to use an old cliché. Otherwise we'd just lose our minds-"

The son of the actor Tim Healy and Loose Women presenter Denise Welch, Healy shows little signs of someone used to fame when he speaks. Instead he talks frequently and openly of wanting an emotional response from the 1975's fans, as well as just getting them to dance.

"There's quite a blunt element to our lyrics, because I think honestly translates to our music, and that's what I try to do. I just lost my grandmother, whom I was really close to, earlier this year, and I've been trying to finish a song, but I can't because I keep crying writing it.

"It's difficult, when you pride yourself on honesty, but it also makes it more rewarding."

The 1975 play Oran Mor, Glasgow on Monday, T in the Park on Sunday July 14 and tGlasgow's O2 ABC on September 17.