Your sound's changed a lot since you started, how would you describe your current sound?
Martin: It's Cabaret Voltaire meets The Monkees.

Tell us about the new album then, Evil Heat. How long did it take you to record?
Andrew: The usual, about a year once we get started. We've got our own studio so we get it all done there.
Martin: We get the music down quite quickly, it's just the business of finishing it.
Andrew: Because nowadays you can pretty much change everything with the technology which is supposed to make everything easier but sometimes you should just have done it and gone home.

Who or what is Miss Lucifer?
Martin: It's just a sex and rock n roll song, it might be about a specific girl but we're not telling.

  One review has said of the new album that it's 'the angriest, least compromised, utterly justified pop record in years has been made by a group of people nearing the age of 40', what do you think of that?
Martin: The older we get the angrier we get, I suppose. Hopefully we're getting more confident without getting complacent.
Andrew: Some people get better. Beethoven was rubbish up to the age of 33, I think, and then he did his good stuff. He was a total journeyman. We're still doing it because we like music and we love doing it. But it takes it out of you and your recovery time...now we go on tour for a week it takes a month to get over it, it used to take a lot less.

You certainly have a reputation for enjoying your tours in the past, is that still the case?
Andrew: Well, we can't remember what happened last week so it must be!
Martin: But we don't enjoy after the tours as much.

Have you done many festivals recently?
Martin Duffy: We did T in the Park in Scotland, one in Dublin, Roskilde in Sweden, and then we did a Gothfest. We enjoy them. We saw Arthur Lee play in Roskilde and that was incredible, and we got to see Oasis who were good. Manowar were good, so were New Order.

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