From what I can gather, the further North that our agent tries to book, the less keen the venues are to have me, as opposed to a full blown Wildhearts gig. Go figure!

The first single I bought was either "Welcome Home" by Peters and Lee (still love those close country harmonies in music to this day), or David Bowies "Drive In Saturday" and it still gives me goosebumps when I hear it.

The first album was Marc Bolan and T-Rex 'Ride A White Swan' that I got because it seemed the only thing I would like in my Mother's catalogue (I'm from the catalogue generation!). I hated it!

It's 'aboot' people pretending to be miserable in order to seem 'deep', or fit into a current musical trend of cultivating misery for profit, while some people have legitimate mental health problems, that they would gladly exchange for a normal, happy life.

I still like to do everything I used to, only in much smaller measures. The main change is the things I do now that I would never have done before, like thinking of someone else (x2) before my own self. My kids have made me a more thoughtful and selfless person, and ensured that I allow far less shit to interfere with my life than I normally would have done. And I also want to stay alive for far longer than I used to!

It felt damn good! As did the reception that greeted Jon Poole. That made me very proud to be in the company of everyone that attended the shows.

Good point, Tom, but I always said I'd stay in contact with them and will promise to do that, unless it becomes too depressing! !

Oh, we can! Just wait and see. It takes off like a fucking missile!

I don't use acoustic guitars at acoustic gigs! I use a Fender Strat!

I have no idea how many I have written, but a lot more than I have recorded! I am always most proud of the ones that have yet to be recorded. I guess that's what keeps me writing them.

Firstly, you might want to forget about signing to a major for the time being. Then write an awful lot of songs and find someone that is willing to record them for you, on the cheap. A four or eight track desk will do.

Then, when you can actually hear what you guys sound like, make adjustments and fine-tune your sound.

Then make sure you play as many shitty little gigs as is humanly possible. The more the better. The shittier the better, just get out there and play. Dammit! And always remember not to be boring.

Someone beat me to it... honestly!

I feel quite awkward when praised. I don't want praise and I don't want the band to be written off because of one album. I just want to be able to make the music that I hear in my head.

I don't really listen to them so I don't mind them. I've often wondered why Kerrang! doesn't feature them as they look like a lot of bands in there, and they sound very similar to 'All American Rejects', who Kerrang! are currently championing.

Try 'Top Of The World'. It's only got three chords!

A BC Rich. The absolute kings of dirt. It's a really cheap one given to me by those kind folk at BC Rich, and it is usually used and endorsed by Random Jon Poole. We call it 'the beast', and I fucking love it! It was played through a Peavy and a Marshall amp, with a sans amp, used on pro tools, to get the crunch.

I would love to come to Argentina, but first we would have to sell some albums there or get a record company to finance the visit. Neither of which looks certain to happen at this moment. I hope this changes in the near future.

We met when they toured with us, a few years ago (back when they used to support!), and we got along great. Then we kept in touch and since then have become good mates.

They're friends of ours, and Toshi their bass player, stood in for Danny on one of our tours.

Love them both! Raven were a fantastic live band, and "Don't need Your Money" is an all time classic. And what can you possibly say about Venom? Without them there wouldn't be half the Metal bands that I love, kicking around. They were/are one of the most influential Metal bands of all time.

Of course. I am, however, hard to please as nine times out of ten I would love to see the band in question, in a live setting, but wouldn't necessarily put them in front of our audience.

I usually get sent bands that sound like the Wildhearts, which doesn't really impress me. The last thing that's gonna blow me away is someone trying to sound like something that we can't help sounding like!

Blatant co-incidence!

Not in the near future, but I hope to work with Devin again at some point.

Yeah, it's a beaut, huh? It was recently bought for me by our soundman Tom Abraham (of 'Tom Take The Money' fame). It seems that a friend of his had it sitting in his house, on display, for 22 years. Tom thought it would be better suited to being shown off around the world than sitting on a wall, so he kindly bought it for me! Sweet, eh?

It is the theme tune for Taxi, a 70's / early 80's US sitcom, starring Danny DeVito in his first role. Check it out on the comedy channel.

I only met him once. He asked me what I was drinking, and I said vodka and pineapple. He then said "you better watch out, that stuff will kill you". Ozzy, warning me about the dangers of drink?

It is the home of UK Rock. It never went trendy, and started giving it all this "guitars are out man" shit, that a lot of clubs did in the '90's. At Rock City, they simply know how to rock.

Sounds like a fantastic idea. Run it past Rob!

The characters mean truth, courage, life and the path. It reads better in Japanese, but it means that you cannot lie to yourself.