*How' s the new album going?
G - the response has been really good. You can't get it at the moment, we just changed record companies...so yeah it's...resting for a little bit. But it' s still getting airplay so that' s good.
*What was it like touring with Moler?
S - that was good, very good fun
D - Julien' s a worry...the emu
G - the emu, yeah, he' s a worry
S - and Stuart, the drummer they had at the time was even more of a worry
G - Helen was the strong force that kept it all together
*Influences on your album...
G - at that stage i was listening to a lot of Superchunk...i' ve always liked Swervedriver
D - Probably Foo Fighters
G - Heaps of different stuff, really, always different
*What Australian bands do you really like?
S - Screamfeeder
G - A lot of them are playing toady...SFK
S - Buffalo...kiss? What am i saying?
G - Kiss?
S - Bluebottle Kiss
D - the kiss are playing
G - Superjesus, they' re on tonight too...they' re a good band...i think most Australian bands are really good...that' s the good thing about it here {Glenworth}, there' s so many good bands
*Do you have a favourite gig that you' ve played?
G - One of my favourites was Tasmania with Everclear
S - yeah, that was pretty good
G - And Moler...it was just a really good fun gig
D - my favourite would probably be Brisbane with Superjesus[agreements]
*Favourite telly shows...
G - Star Trek
D - Monkey Magic
S - i liked Seinfeld until i got sick of it
*Do you read/have and favourite fanzines?
D - Not a great deal
G - Pee, there' s one called Pee that' s really good. Shred' s probably the best one i' ve read
S - Shreds really good
D - the one called Rolling Stone' s not bad
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G - can you turn the sun down a bit and bring a cloud over? We want a bit of light rain...just a bit of water coming down second song
*What do you think of Newcastle when you' ve played there?
G - We only really stayed there for the amount of time we played really
S - Last time it was the Bar on the Hill that we played at last time - that was good
G - That was great, it' s a nice place...
S - it' s the only University that i don' t mind playing at...so many uni' s are just fucked...just the setups they have. We were there on a really warm night so it was just full and everyone' s sitting outside having a beer and you can hear the music
G - there was air flowing through there...food. Good chicken burgers. It had it all
S - The Cambridge was good except we were there on a Sunday so it was sort of low-key. but i' m sure it would be pretty good when there' s a lot of people in there
G - there was a few...for a Sunday
S - we played someplace there that' s shut down. that would be our worst ever gig
G - Oh yeah...the time before we played at the Bar on the Hill in the day and got attacked by mosquitoes really savagely. we were playing and it' s just errrrr {mosquito noise} i can remember playing and just whacking myself...it was horrible
*How did you get your name [Violetine]?
S - We were called Violet and when we got signed there was a band from Adelaide called Violets' and we thought it was already starting to get confused, so um...we changed it, we wanted to have a name that no one else would have, so we made up our own word still using Violet.
G - It' s something for something...i don' t know
D - What' s something for something?
G - some language - it means something in some language
S - Does it?...[laughter]...it' s something for something, it means something in something, yeah...quote that...when asked about the name Glenn said ' It' s something for something and it means something' [ha ha]
G - I was being sarcastic. it means nothing
*What do you do when your not playing/touring?
D - work
G - I' ve been on holidays a bit lately...i went to Phillip Island for a while...i went to Byron as well...Byron Bay...sean went to Queensland and Damien went to Shock Records and worked everyday
D - Don' t remind me
*How do you Kill the Cod?
S - Kill the Cod?
G - You have to catch it first, eh...
S - I' d give it a drink of Coke
D - I' d dangle a bit of sausage for it
S - yeah catch it with a sausage, with a hook in it
G - I' d bludgeon it with um...the thing they kill baby fur seals with...bludgeon with a baton
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