Chuffed to fuck. When I was young I remember thinking that David Bowie and Marc Bolan getting played at football matches was testament to the power and unifying capabilities of music to break down social stereotypes. If we can get played on 'MOTD' it means that Rock music has been accepted as a soundtrack to celebration. Feels good.

Yeah, you can always send copies of the material to radio stations. Get a petition together of names from the mailing list and send that along with some CDR's of our material. The radio stations will be impressed by your dedication and may listen to the stuff out of admiration for your efforts.

You could also start writing to the magazines and tell them that we're coming! Anything you can do to spread the word is greatly appreciated.

Cheap Trick already beat us to it!

I love the Audioslave album, I've just got into Golden Smog (members of Soul Asylum, Big Star and The Jayhawks), Darling are gonna rock big time in 2003, I really like the Darkness and Volta. The new Sparks album is strange but great. And I love the new Richard Ashcroft single!

Yeah, every musician worth a shit has to go through that. it's one of the things that reminds you of where you came from, and where you never wanna go back to.

And yes, It's a necessary evil, I'm afraid. If you don't move to London you really are cutting off a lot of potential chances. Try it, why dontcha?

I have very little time for hobbies, with the music and fatherhood. But when I DO get a chance to unwind I like reading (I'm a magazine junkie), shopping, watching movies and I love driving!

I hope so. I have a feeling that the Wildhearts will be doing Leeds and Reading. Common sense dictates that our rise in popularity should win over even the staunchest of critics by Summer.....having said that common sense isn't always in abundance in this business.

I'd love to do more festivals. As for 'getting through' to people, there is so much resistance, from the BBC to MTV. We have gotten used to being ignored by the heads of fossilised corporate systems, and instead get off on the sound of people eating their words.......in gravy made of shit. Revenge is a dish best served cold...with a smile.

Guys dressing to impress girls. Bad chat up lines. Basically it was inspired by the Neanderthal approach to courtship that guys tend to adopt since being brainwashed into thinking that British 'guy' flix and 'bloke culture' (surely a contradiction in terms) is the way to win the affection of anyone but the most stupid of females.

1) We will probably release it through ROUND records in UK. We will be recording a LOT of songs, so the Japanese import will no doubt feature some exclusive material.

2) None, I'm afraid.

3) We will be recording the album in late April/May. It's going to be a mix of faster rockin' stuff and more melodic songs loaded with riffs. There isn't going to be any 'filler', that's for sure.

Haha, I'm sat here today covered in 'fives' answering a question about the relevance of the number...and I'm not sure what got me into the number to be honest. I was always attracted by it, but not until later did I realise that it is, in numerology, the number of entertainment. It is also the number of man (if the Devil is Six and God is Seven). It's the number of digits on a healthy hand, the number of days before the weekend and the amount of strings on a guitar that you REALLY need to use!

We play those kind of tracks when we are feeling bored with performing the same set every night. And there are a lot of fans that stare at the stage, confused from never having heard these b-side tracks before. In short, playing the more rare songs ends to alienate more the of the audience than it involves.

Haha, alas NO! Someone like Sebastian Bach would be cool tho'! Unless he joins Slash's band, of course.

Why's that? Is it because Rock stars are supposed to be too far up their own ass to reply to fans? Yeah, this is me...and anyone who in a band who can't be bothered to write back to you doesn't deserve your money. Spend wisely!

The title tracks should feature on the forthcoming album, due out later this year. The B-sides, however, will not...so get buying!

Thanx. I directed the last one with help from my friend Philip Richardson, who directed a lot of our previous ones. It's funny but although I love our videos, they do seem to have a lot of detractors who think they suck. Shows how much I know, huh?

Yeah, I heard that one! I like a good rumour, especially when it's about me! Having said that I'm not really all that miserable, and besides, being a good friend of Willie (the writer of the song) I actually know who it IS about! And no, I'm not telling you!

Maybe. I remember one of their songs having a really nice tune, it's wouldn't be unusual for it to stick in my head subconsciously. Having said that CJ reckons it sounds nothing like any Jelly's song

No, it was a tribute!! Obviously recorded before all of this Pete Townsend business came to the fore.

Life affirming. It makes you a better person and fills every day of your life with love. And although this may sound like hippy rubbish you will find yourself saying things like this when you become a Dad! If not you have something very wrong with you!!

I loved the audacity that they proudly had, and presumably still have. Something that is sadly missing from todays over analysed, over serious business. Where are the contenders with the balls?

Yes, I was. We all were. It was just one of those days. If Jesus had walked across the garden in a 'smiley bones' shirt declaring his love for the single, we would have just said 'really'?

'Down with the music-go-round' and 'All that the kids will allow'.

We've had some amazing bands tour with us. My favourites are probably Groop DogDrill because I absolutely love them, and Strapping Young Lad, for...well, for they are Strapping Young Lad.

It's weird because although that tour was the one that really got the band off the ground, we were working so hard at the time we didn't really feel the benefit that it was doing us. We were getting almost as popular as The Almighty at the time, we were kind of going up and they were kind of winding down, but I never felt any excitement otherwise I would have talked them into not splitting up for the sake of Rock n Roll. Anyway, at the time we were the popular new upstarts, but The Almighty were still the guv'nors, in my opinion.

NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!!!!! It's funny reading those old Kerrangs, before recently throwing them out, and seeing all the other bands of the time (1993/4). There aren't many still left, and there are none getting into the charts these days! I guess time has been VERY kind to us. We can only be grateful for that.

Alas, 'tis merely the title again.

I don't use any, I just plug in and turn it up loud.