The The’s Matt Johnson: ‘I found more sincerity inside a 12-step programme than any church’

The Eighties icons have announced their first album in 24 years. Ahead of its release, their longtime leader invites Michael Hann over to his Shoreditch haunt to discuss the record, his own near-death experience, the hipsterfication of Shoreditch, and finding faith and ‘magic’ in unexpected places