What can you tell me about those year’s scene, with all of those new gothic bands, called as the “second wave”? I didn’t go to many small gigs then, so most of the bands I saw were ones we were playing with. When I first joined, Vlad and Damien took me to see Rosetta Stone, and they were like ‘this is the competition’, I thought they were great, actually. I’ve got a cassette of a band called The Witching Hour in my kitchen that I put on the just the other day. I like the simplicity that and other than them I used to like Ancestry, although they were always bitchy about us. There was a lot of that! I always think it’s important not to listen to too many other bands from the same ‘scene’ if you’re in a band, otherwise
everyone starts being influenced by each other, which is stifling. What did you do when you left the band? I played in a couple of other bands, Fashionable Living Death, and Ditzy Micro. Fashionable Living Death were an amazing punk band, and certainly the most fun band to be in I can imagine. How did you come back to the band? Damien started phoning me up, trying to twist my arm with promises of fame and fortune. I guess that did the trick. “Somebody Put Something In My Drink” was your first recording after several years
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