1 - How do you relax?
I watch a lot of videos, mostly comedy or gangster films. I've been reading quite a bit recently, stuff like Bukowski that Jon got me into. I love Nintendo and Playstation games, I listen to ALOT of music all the time and try to go clubbing every now and then, although this isn't exactly relaxing as I tend to feel ruined for days after!! I also play guitar as often as possible to keep me 'on it'.

2 - Which person do you most admire?
Can't think of any one person, I admire a lot of musicians, too many to mention.

3 - What are your favourite websites?
I only really visit pitchshifter.com, the internet is something I have yet to be excited by!!!

4 - What sucks at the moment?
That fact that new Labour are basically Tories!! Tony Blair?..more like Torie blur!!!! Aside from that, the English weather, the fact that I can count the number of new English rock bands that I like on 1 finger, it also sucks that we aren't touring although I'm sure in 6 months time I'll regret saying that.

5 - What bands would you like to tour with?
NOFX, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, the Jam, Helmet, Smashing Pumpkins, Atari Teenage Riot.

6 - What's your favourite meal?
I love vegetarian : chilli, curry, lasagne, sheperds pie!, mashed potatoes and this bean curd in black bean sauce dish from Evergreen in Nottingham..fantastic.

7 - What's your nickname?
I have the normal ones with a name like mine-Jimbo, Jimboy, Jimlad, Jimmy d, James etc...

8 - What's the best rumour that you've heard about Pitchshifter?
That we are all po-faced musical revolutionaries!!! Total bollocks.

9 - What have you got in your wallet?
Too many credit cards, video shop card, fake elvis i.d, money.

10 - How would you like to die?
Quick, happy, and by my own hand.

11 - What did you do before Pitchshifter?
I played in a few punk bands for a giggle, dodgy cover bands as a teenager, got into some session work, played with the Prodigy for a a year or so, I did guitars for their last album..blah..blah..blah

12 - When's your birthday?
The 18th October

13 - Who would you like Pitchshifter to remix?
Atari Teenage Riot, Prodigy

14 - What was the last thing you smashed up?
A Playstation controller when I got right to the end of 'Resident Evil' after playing for an hour and died without saving the game.

15 - What bands have blown you away live?
Rage at Reading, the Prodigy in their hayday, ATR on a good day, Chilli Peppers at Reading 99 (although I was totally hammered).

16 - When was the last time you feared for your life?
Everytime we fly!!!, I don't like flying and I have to keep telling my self it's gonna' be fine when we fly to stave off panic attacks!!!! (or just get drunk and forget it!!).

17 - What magazines/papers do you read?
I read music mags mostly-Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Future Music, Computer Music and some pop culture mags like FHM and Maxim.

18 - What do you do on tour when you're not onstage?
I try to "hold it all together"!!, I do start going mad after a month or so, I try to do the tourist thing, visit mad places, meet new cool people, write tunes, basically anything to stop myself going insane and getting drunk all the time.

19 - What's the biggest mistake you've made in your life?
I think everyone has made alot but i can't help thinking I've made more than most!! Too many to mention.

20 - What piece of technology has changed your life?
Probably computers, the e-mail thing is great and as far as recording goes computers are everything these days.

21 - What cartoons/comedy programmes do you watch?
I watch ALOT of comedy- South Park, Simpsons, Blackadder, Harry Enfield, Fast Show, Father Ted, Men Behaving Badly, all the Naked Gun films and police squads re-runs.

Interview featured on official site during 1999.

Interview with Jim on January 18, 2000

Interview with Jim in December of 1998.