Interviews

Anyway I'm shit at crosswords. I just think, so what? They are too insular a pastime for me. I always preferred Scrabble because it's much more social

We don't use much drugs and when we drink too much we just get sleepy. It's sad, I know.

Weasels and Penny Farthings. The stuff all good conversations are made of.

The story goes that on our rider we ask for four baby pigs dressed in racing jackets, so we can race them… But I think we could update it for four gerbils…

We use tea in a very naughty way. We get so high on tea. We get so fucked up on tea. We go in there (the tea shop) and just start screaming.

The story goes that he died in his bath  - electroschock. I heard he was trying to change to lightbulb when he was in the shower.

Like a lot of people in this dog eat dog world, we’ve felt the ice-blood flowing through our veins melting like a polar cap every time we hear the perfect boy-girl harmonies created by the Magic Numbers.

Alan got lost backstage. Incendiary could have been beaten up by De la Soul, but probably weren't (not that they can remember).

"An argument was had with the Rakes driver, a nervous individual who began, in my crazed state, to remind me disgustingly of ex- Radio One dj Peter Powell."

"Our man sits down with the best dressed men in rock and roll to find out about their rock and roll Antics."

"The train compartment emptied as I hauled my drunken, vinegar sodden form into an empty seat. "

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If there's something really beautiful going on you have something underneath it that keeps it down to Earth.

"There's always been hyped bands.  I don't know how we fit into it. I don't think we're really bothered about it.  If it happens, it happens…"

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Like when words don't fit in, you know, sometimes I'll opt for a word that isn't necessarily the best, or the most descriptive word I could use but it just sounds nice, you know?

"In the seventies you had people that were the pop stars of the period like Elvis Costello, The Jam or The Clash and their subject matter was heavy and now it seeems like a lot of people aren't saying anything that makes any real difference to me."

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I usually consider the turntables as a chord-instrument like a piano or guitar. That is the basic thing of Electric Barbarian: trying to use the turntables as a replacement of the chords. Only the best scratchers can do that and improvise with it.

"Up until now we've been a bit like a baby marsupial in its mother's pouch. You have to know when the time is right to hop out into the wide world, and we want to do that fully grown."

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Gruff makes ready to go. “Erm I'm going to get a drink. You got any more of them nuts?” (Gruff, for the record has been slyly scoffing all the complimentary nuts the entire length of the interview).

"We all have a creative input but I think it's fair to say that Sharon has the final say on the trousers."

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Pumf Records Interview