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"Club 69 in Paisley - it's maybe 300 people max and when you phone it you get through to the Indian waiters upstairs! They get the greatest DJs from Detroit over."
 Greg Woods: I understand Richard was a student at LCP the year before me. If the band were not so successful, what would be your 'trade' now do you think?
Richard: I still do artwork for the band, and the videos, and still shoot photography. Me and Will did the cover for Scorpio Rising - he's my partner in graphics and he also went to LCP. At the moment we're working on a book of our actual artwork - not so much graphics, but art for exhibitions. We're still active on that side of things. I'd definitely like to do some more directing, and also more stuff outside music videos as well.
kornchick33: If you could choose a dream place to play a gig, where would it be and why?
Richard: As far as venues and DJing are concerned, I've always been a fan of small venues. I like the sound to be good - I like it to be sweaty, but then again, when we played Glastonbury that was quite an experience on the Saturday night with the sunset. Playing to a large amount of people is exciting as well.
Tim: The good thing about festivals - you don't get a sound check, so your first number is quite chaotic, setting levels, so the crowd are much more accommodating. I personally prefer to play smaller, more intimate venues, just because it's more intimate.
MaryJane: Which club nights would you recommend?
Richard: There's a club called Club 69 in Paisley, Scotland, below a curry house. It's an area outside Glasgow - quite rough, but there's real characters. The club's run by guys who run a record shop called Rub a Dub in Glasgow. It's maybe 300 people max and when you ring it you get through to the Indian waiters upstairs! They get the greatest DJs from Detroit over. It's brilliant. Haywire's, around London, is really good; and the loft in Barcelona - they are my personal favourites.
 Andy: Richard, I remember listening to your Essential Mix with Jon Carter in 96 - any chance of a repeat?
Richard: Yes! On the 24 November.
Tim: We've also been asked to do a Back to Mine, which should be pretty good. We're just starting to think about it now.
Tim: "Flying was one of the songs that came out of nowhere - it was just one of those special moments. "
Rachel Sattel: Do you prefer chicken or turkey?
Richard: Chicken.
Tim: Definitely chicken. That's the best question so far.
Richard: Breasts.
Tim: I prefer legs.
Richard: Last night we found out about these things called chicken bombs - you get raw chicken, some pints of milk, vinegar, and another component we can't remember. You ram it into a jar, and it takes two months, and then explodes. I like the delayed reaction. It's even more sinister, isn't it? No-one gets hurt - it's just a bad smell.
Paul Dickin: What do you think of Spinal Tap?
Tim: As a film, it's fantastic.
Richard: I like the attitude more really. There's a band called The Darkness - they are supposed to be quite Tap. Their ambition is to play stadiums with glitter guns. I've seen a few episodes of the Osbournes - I thought they were hysterical.
Tim: My favourite in the Spinal Tap film is the replica Stonehenge. I'm quite into things being the wrong size.
DayBeat: Richard - Spanish or English chicks?
Richard: Well...erm...they are a beautiful race in Spain.
 Sim: I remember you saying Flying was a favourite from Contino Sessions - how about from the new album?
Tim: Nothing in the same way that I do with that particular track. Flying was one of the songs that came out of nowhere, it was just one of those special moments. I don't know why. Everything was right, but sometimes it's a struggle. Killing Smile is one of my favourite from this album.
Richard: Natja as well. I think because it's so simple, and so emotive. That's what I strive to hear. If you can hook something with the smallest components, that's the hardest thing to do.
Tim: That said there are 266 violins at the end of our album!
Ape Man: This album seems even more eclectic than Contino - how do you decide on the tracklisting and putting together totally different styles of music?
Richard: It's probably the most difficult thing to do. It was very hard to compile such a varied tracklisting, but I think we did it. For example, putting a minimal techno track to a country song. But because we record it and produce it, there's that undercurrent of feeling.
Tim: We thought we were going to complete one more song for the album, then we both realised we didn't need to - we'd done it, and it was complete as it was.
Radio1-Host: That's all we've got time for. Here's Death In Vegas with a final word...
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