Music

We were all amazed, apart from Marky T who said, "That's rubbish, where's the metal?"

We stayed in Edinburgh for two years, some studying, some working, one doing everything else.

Our bassist is from Finland, his uncle was in the Grateful Dead.

I share the same name has Sid Vicious and was born on the exact day and hour he died in 1979.

We toured with the Beat Band at the end of last year and went crazy but we've now made a full recovery...

Our music is from punk to folk ballads to sampled weirdness. We write strange press releases and get called 1. Odd 2. Students. Neither of which are true although I have nothing against either.

We believe in defeating the corporate rock beast and we generally don't wear spandex, apart from Marky T who said, "That's rubbish, where's the metal?"

Quickfire questions with Simon Ritchie

Tell us about the band's name...

Haiku:My:IQ sounds great! We all love Japan and believe our spiritual home is Osaka and Haikus, and wanted the name to equal our agenda?! Or ideas which is that turning everything you learn into art, everything you have in your intelligence into creating something, making something new, and that this a a good thing! And did I mention it sounds good?

Influences...

Jesus Killed Sunday, Eddie Bo, Johnny Cash, Sugar Hill Gang, The Cure, The Smiths, Biggie Smalls.

Best gig...

Our best gig was supporting the Beta Band at their last ever gig in Edinburgh in December last year. But also a year earlier at the Belle Angele the day before it burned down in Edinburgh where we trashed some of our equipment in a frenzy and got attacked by the sound man!

Best band ever...

Bob Marley and the Wailers, revolutionary brilliance...

Worst moment touring...

Playing in Brixton at the Windmill 2004. We all had colds and thought we'd dose up on paracetamol and hot toddies before leaving Andy's Gran's flat where we were staying. We accidently took her sleeping pills from her medicine cupboard before the gig, not paracetamol, on top of hot whiskey and lemon. A very surreal gig. Record company people came down and we could hardly speak!

What the band hopes to achieve...

Setting up our own studios and distributing eclectic music to whoever we reach.

Any examples of 'rock 'n' roll' misbehaviour?

The aforementioned Bell Angele trashing and the sleeping pills extravaganza. The post-Beta Band gig party with Mani from the Stone Roses. Mani is an animal!