[1][2] Now based in Manchester,[3] the band consists band consists of lead vocalist, principal songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Matty Healy,[4] drummer and primary producer George Daniel, lead guitarist Adam Hann, and bassist Ross MacDonald.

[5] The name of the band was inspired by a page of scribblings found in Healy's copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac that was dated "1 June, The 1975".

They followed it with I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (2016), A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018), Notes on a Conditional Form (2020) and Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022).

The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) began in 2007, celebrating video and light designers for their creative work in the UK.

The award was won by designer Tobias G. Rylander, who has worked alongside frontman Matty Healy on the band's stage set up.

mtvU, a division of MTV Networks owned by Viacom, broadcasts a 24-hour television channel available on more than 750 college and university campuses across the United States.

The awards honour the year's biggest achievements in music, films, sports, television, fashion and other categories, voted by teenage viewers.