BBC Southampton's Indy Almroth-Wright headed backstage for a chat with bass player Daz and guitarist Gaz when the Corby six piece stopped off at The Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth.

You've been touring like mad for the last couple of years - is life on the road taking its toll yet?
Daz - I suppose you get yourself into it, once you get into a rhythm. When I get home after a tour I'll still be in the same rhythm of getting to bed at four in the morning for a while.
Gaz - When you get off a tour you need a few days to go home and just stare at the TV.

Frank Regan

You certainly arrived with a bang on planet rock last year, with the likes of Kerrang heralding We Will Be Dead Tomorrow as one of the best metal albums of 2002 - you must be well chuffed?
Gaz - Yeah, the second album we feel we've done as best we could. The first album was kind of a rushed job and we were really young then. This one we've put all our effort into it to make it the best album we could.
Daz - Yeah we spent a lot of time on it. There's not one part of that record I'm not happy with.
Gaz - It's nice to get such a great response from it. We're really proud of it.

How do you put a song together?
Gaz - It's definitely a group effort. We'll take someone's individual idea for a guitar riff or something and the whole band will work on it - the vocals are always the last thing to go on top. We don't all live in Corby anymore so we're kind of writing stuff on the road at the moment.

John Loughlin

What three things do you have to have on the rider?
Daz - Talcum powder
Gaz - Yep talcum powder, a good book, some decent records and a picture of my girlfriend in my book to remind me of home and what I'm doing it for.

What do you think about being labelled as an overtly rowdy band?
Gaz - I guess it comes with the territory.
Daz - It does get a bit wild. It just happens sometimes, I'm sure that trouble just follows us around. It's like a group of lads going on holiday to Tenerife or somewhere - all charged up to go wild.
Gaz - We just have a laugh - it's not anything malicious and we don't go out of our way to try and get that perception but just sometimes stupid things happen.

What would you most like to be remembered for?
Gaz - Making good records and being a good live band.

What item of clothing would you not been seen dead in?
Gaz - A Linkin Park T-shirt.
Daz - Yep, I agree.

Frank Regan

When was the last time you woke up fully clothed in a strange place?
Daz - It's going back a while isn't it?
Gaz - We've become a bit more responsible these last few years.
Daz - The last time was when we slept in the lift in Nottingham train station. We went to a gig at Rock City and then it dawned on us that we didn't have anywhere to stay. We were so drunk we ended up kipping in the lift of the train station which was going up and down all night. The door kept opening and there was some old guy sweeping the floor. He'd just look at us and the doors would close and we'd go back down.
Gaz - Yeah, he looked like Homer Simpson - I woke up surrounded by fag butts and was like 'where the hell are we?'

What's the best thing about Corby?
Gaz - My mum and dad.
Daz - Greedy Pigs Cafe, where you can get a breakfast bigger than you.
Gaz - That genuinely is about it.

What are your plans for 2003?
Gaz - This tour finishes at the start of March and then May time we'll start doing some festivals and then do a European headline tour. We're trying to get four of five bands together to take all over Europe, which I'm getting quite excited about.