Here's the first half of what he had to say...
So, club seven inch is organised by yourselves? What gave you the idea?
Organised is too strong a word. Featuring ourselves. I think it'll become organised over the course of it. That's why we've got four, so the last one will be fantastic. This one's gonna be a total shambles. Yes, it was just the idea of sort of staying in the same place for a while, which is nice. Erm, partly cause this venue approached us anyway. They used to do the Wag club, which is a kinda classic sorta guitar club - pretty cool. They were starting it up here and wanted to have some cool bands. Obviously they couldn't get any, so they asked us. And um, we thought it'd be nice, cause we're touring through February all over the blasted country. So this is kinda like if people wanna come and see us, they'll know where to come it's like every other Wednesday down here, that's where we'll be. And so, that's a nice idea. As we go along, we'll try and make it a bit more interesting, but we haven't thought of anything yet, so it'll just be... normal tonight. I mean I'm just looking forward to having T-shirts with 7-inches of pleasure on, then that'll be fine - I can retire a happy man.
Is that it, are we finished, only one question?!
What was the last seven inch you bought?
Oh god! Well, probably my own, in actual fact. I mean, I don't even have a record player. Erm, so, I thought, I mean I quite liked the 7" of 'Something Real', so I bought that for a laugh in Worcester or something
On tour?
Yeah, which was just, I think, funny. And erm... so that was probably a bit of a shit answer really but I never used to buy singles really when I was growing up. I remember buying the 12" of 'What is Love?' by Howard Jones when I was about 7, that was probably the last one. Great record.
Who are the main inspirations and influences to the band's sound?
I think, erm, it's really, I had these 2 albums when I was little. One was 'Keep on Wombling' by the Wombles, and the other was 'I'd like to teach the world to laugh', by the Baron Knights. It's really a combination of the best of those two artists.
On a sort of a childrens theme, what's your favourite children's TV show of all time, ever?
Newsnight.
But that's not a children's program
I believe it is - they just put it on late. Nah, they show it in the mornings as well, but people don't realise that. It's got a big audience in the under threes.
There's not much point in asking if you still remember the theme tune then?
No well, in reality my favourite was probably... I did like the Wombles, and that has got a great theme tune. And I liked the Flumps, that had a great theme. I was always attracted to the theme tunes. I used to like the Munch Bunch, and that had a great theme tune as well. A lot of our songs sound uncannily like... like there's a new song we're playing tonight which I realised has got a bit of the theme tune to Dr Snuggles, friend of the animal world, in it.
What did you want to be when you were little? What did you want to grow up to be?
Well, actually, for the first 11 or 12 years, I was determined to be a stuntman. That's really what I wanted to do. I used to buy, like I'd go to jumble sales and fetes and buy, erm, mattresses. And I had a collection of mattresses, most of them were rather stained and old. And I would jump off the house onto them. My dad had an agreement with me that if I would clean the gutters, he'd let me jump off the house.
So that's where the stage-dive at the end comes from then? From the stuntman ambition?!
I guess so, yeah. That's the last remnants of it now. No, I'm hoping as we get onto the arena tours that we'd have some kind of ramps and gantries and some sort of like crash mats, and I'm gonna dive off, maybe through a little hoop of fire.
If you was around when one of your songs came on the radio or TV, would you sit and listen to it, or would you turn it off?
Well, I did have the experience on tour in... on the tour last year. I was in the err ever glamorous travelodge bedroom where I was staying and I just turned on the radio, just as you do sort of thing, and it was Radio 1, and by fluke, Mark and Lard played 'Something Real' then, right then. So that was pretty cool and I listened to it like I'd never heard it. It's interesting like when you spend ages and ages recording and mixing a song and in the end... mostly it counts how does it sound coming out of the wall of a travelodge. But, erm, it sounded pretty good actually, yeah.
Would you ever consider putting forward an entry, with the 45s, to the Eurovision song contest?
(chuckles) Almost certainly not. Erm, I mean it's a bit of a joke, isn't it. I mean, ABBA aside, the eurovision song contest is never really... it's like I dunno what it is, it's got it's own genre which is the worst music on record. So if we ever write a song that fits that category... yeah... we keep trying, but they keep coming out too good.
So you're not a big eurovision fan, then?
No.
We're going to ask you a series of either/or questions, then if you chose one or the other.
Star Wars, or Star Trek?
Star Wars
Sheep or cows?
Sheep or cows? No idea, they're both really dense, and they look at you weird. Erm... cows.
Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings?
Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter is for children.
Dogs or cats?
Cats
Over or under?
Probably given my stuntman feelings - over.
Read more in part 2!