Interview archived from the news page: Nicky @ Scala
It's an important magazine [Q mag] there's not many left from when we started really. There was loads of monthly music magazines and they've all kind of died and faded away, so it's very important. Both of us coming from the same kind of backgrounds I think we always have to prove ourselves and just doing stuff without debating endlessly about it. We're the TSB band, the band that likes to say yes. It's a nice way to repay your really hardcore fans who are desperate to see you in a different kind of environment. There was no big band discussions about it or anything, it was just "we'll just do it".
I think the idea is to keep things pretty short and sweet. You know tonight there's a lot of stuff for the hardcore fans really, stuff off the holy bible and stuff off generation terrorists, there's probably about 2 or 3 tracks from every album, we're not just playing the new album, it's a kind of pay back for everyone. Lots of hits and lots of minor hits, lots of scraping in at 33 and lots of scraping in at no.5.
They played: YLUs-M.E.-Ocean Spray-[more nicky see below]-Tolerate-DFL.
I think part of the reason we've done a lot of smaller kind of shows is to keep us on our toes, because it is harder, it makes you kind of up the ante, bands lie really when they say it's more nervous going infront of 20 or 30,000, because you're not, you're lost, it's like an overwhelming power you get and when you're faced with those people that have dedicated so much of their time and lives infront of you, it really makes you feel you've got to give them something. So you never coast it infront of a small gig like tonight, you really feel like you've got to repay something.
