ISSUE 5 Various Comments by Andy-quirk Commerciality and Product Endorsement Bands like bis are no less commercial than the Spice Girls. Sure bis are on an "indie", but Wiija sell through corporate multinationals just like anyone else. bis have recorded music for use on a Playstation game, you know - the machine Sony make! I'm not saying this is bad, in fact I mean quite the opposite. Bands know that what they have won't last for ever. Most pop bands last three to four years at the most. Within this short time they are entitled to make as much money as they possibly can. This money can then either be squandered on pure hedonism (drugs, fast cars, etc) or invested. I'm sure that if bis were offered hundreds of thousands of pounds to endorse, say, a new brand of lollipop they would consider doing it. Not because they are evil corporate scum(!), but perhaps so that when bis are over (yes kids, it will happen) the money can be used in a way that they see as good for music. Perhaps Sci-Fi's label could be developed to carry more acts that otherwise would never get to release a record, or Funky Spunk could turn into a national publication that showed your average kid on the street that there was a real alternative to the NME or Smash Hits. People should realise that there is nothing wrong with being part of the "industry", after all, it's much easier to change things from the inside. What's Wrong With Chart Pop and Major Labels? I still read reviews of quirk which make a big deal out of the fact I like the Spice Girls. To some people to like one sort of music means you cannot like another. The idea that to be "indie" you have to shun the top fourty completely misses the point. Most "indie" bands actually want to be famous, fact! If you ask any musician if they'd love to do what they enjoy most and get paid for it few would turn it down. Music should be appreciated on what it sounds like, not who paid for the production of it. Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, and even Aqua all have their merits. I don't think anyone can seriously claim to only enjoy bis and Helen Love. Sure they have their place, just like everyone else. When I go to a club I want to dance, if it has a 4/4 beat with lots of bass then it's fine by me, but in the morning I want to listen to something softer. Later on I might want to listen to something noisey, or quiet, or whatever. Being obnoxiously indie is both stupid and pointless. Supermarkets There has been a fair bit in the media about supermarkets killing independent record shops, like the bakeries and butchers before them. The idea that you could walk into a supermarket, buy your food for the week, check out the clothing range, buy some toys, and pick up your favourite cds, is a supermarket's dream. However, as everyone has seen in practice it doesn't work. Supermarkets may try and sell you clothes, but how many people actually think Asda's latest range is cool? Who actually goes to the toy aisle to get their younger brother his birthday present? But is it the same with cds? Apparently 8% of music sales are now accounted for by supermarkets. The problem with supermarkets is choice, i.e., there isn't any. You may get that weeks top twenty plus albums by the biggest stars. But the new releases will be restricted to two or three singles, usually ones guaranteed to go top ten. and a few albums from the most established of established acts. There is no vinyl (it won't shift as many units as cd, and the profits will be lower) and certainly no releases from any indies. Unlike independent record shops, who will stock material from local bands, supermarkets will only accept what head office sends down. If by the year 2000 half of all music sales are accounted for by supermarkets (as projected by experts) the number of new bands breaking in the u.k will be tiny. You'll only get a release with a multi-million pound backing campaign and a three for one deal. Music will finally be safe and respectable. another can of baked beans.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chatting with Japan Anti-Rock by Andy-quirk After JAR had finished their set at the Waterats three fanzine editors had been inspired enough to go and interview them (me included). This lead to the most chaotic and off the wall interview every conducted as every fanzine's different styles of questions got completely mixed up! quirk would never lower itself to questions like, "what sort of food would your music be?", just like Violent Pink would never ask what musical genre JAR saw themselves as. The interviewees and interviewers are as follows: Patrick (P), Joanna (J), quirk (Q), Neu Resistance (NR), Violent Pink (VP), Assorted observers and friends (O). VP.First question better be what is the name of your band? P.Japan Anti Rock, which is an anagram of Patrick and Joanna. Q.What's your inspiration? NR/VP/O.Aaaaargh, no no no! P.Errrrm. NR.What do you think of the Pin-Ups? P.They are complete tossers, they're complete wankers who should just go back to their pubs. They asked me if I had breasts, I just said I was wearing a corset that day to hold them in! J.They kept shouting at me to show them my tits. Q.Does it bother you that there's all this laddism in rock? P.Yes it does, extremely. Q.So do you see yourselves as kind of romo? J/VP/NR.Aaaarrrggghhh! J.I'm not romo! He might be, but I'm not! P.No way! J.We're not romo, nothing is romo. NR.Why did you say that (to quirk) Q.You've got to inspire debate! You can't just tell people they're great! VP.Where would you have a statue of yourself erected? P.I normally play theramin live, instead of violin like tonight. I'd like a statue of me playing theramin outside the Tagh Mahal, it's a beutiful place. It was so beutiful it made me cry. Q.How long have you been into forming bands? P.Well I've been writing songs for about two years. I only joined up with Joanna for this gig but we work really well together, so we're now working together as a proper band. We've been going for about a month. Q.What's the age difference between you two? P.Two years. I'm fourteen and Joanna is sixteen. VP.What's your most vivid childhood memory? P.I pooed in someone's garden! I remember the parents finding me! VP.Who would you like to be for the day? P.I'd like to be Bjork, because I'm totally in love with her. NR.Does your keyboard have a name? P.We didn't use a keyboard, that was a four track! It does have a name though. Q.(cringes at the direction the questions are going in...!) VP:Look (quirk), we'll cut out your serious bits and you can cut out our silly bits okay! Q.quirk wants hard hitting news! But I'm printing everything! NR.(sarcastic tone) So Patrick, what do you think about The Smiths?! VP/NR/Q/P/J/O.(laughter!) Q.Oh shut up! NR.Sorry, hehe! Q.So what do you think of the Sugarcubes? P. (long pause) I can't handle this conversation! Q.Do you buy all your own accessories? (Patrick was kitted out in hairclips, glitter, makeup, bangles, etc) P.Yeah. I got a few bits for christmas, but I buy most of it. Q.Do you normally wear all this stuff in the street? J.Yeah, he does! P.Sometimes, I wear these sorts of clothes, but normally just have a bit of glitter with them. J.I don't wear what I'm wearing now 'cos I'd get raped, probably by the Pin-Ups! VP.What makes you really angry? J.The Pin-Ups! P.Right, we're not going to talk about them anymore, we're giving them too much space! P.What makes me really angry are the people in our school. I wrote most of my songs about them. I had to change school because I was really badly bullied. People are still giving me prank 'phone calls. (Christy Satsuma enters) VP.Hello Christy, Andy's being really serious! Q.That's just because they want to know about yo-yos and sweets - and I want to know, "the truth"! VP.Does anyone really want to know about influences? Isn't that like the NME? Q.Ha ha, good point, what do you think of the music press? NR/VP.Aaaarrrggh! J.The Melody Maker is shit! Patrick, you remember what Everett True said about Bjork? P.He said that Bjork had no feeling in her music. J.Everett True shagged Placebo! P.That's 'cos he's, "so controversial"! J."I kissed a transvestite last night", how crap! NR.Has anyone offered you a record or anything? J.We've got one (a deal), but this guy isn't giving us any money. We want some money to do a proper recording. VP.What about t-shirts? P.Oooh, we'd like some of them. But no baggy ones. (Andy quirk looks down at his baggy t-shirt) P.Okay, we'll make one for you! We'd like to make our own brand of platform shoes. VP.Wow, that's so cool! P.We'd have Japan Anti Rock written on the sides of them. They'd be like the ones I'm wearing now, which are two sizes too small. These are real Spice Girl Pepsi ones! I have five pairs of platforms at home. VP.If your music was a food what would it be? (Andy quirk groans) P.I think we'd be hot chocolate with double cocolate chip cookies. Mmmmm! I'd be that and Joanna could be something else so we'd combine to make a cultural explosion! What would you be Joanna? J.I guess it'd have sugar in it because it is sweet. NR.Haagan Das or Ben & Jerris?! J.It's all ice cream at the end of the day, isn't it! P.Nooo, it's not just, "all ice cream at the end of the day". (offended by his sisters lack of ice cream expertise!) NR.Do you hate your parents? P.We like them sometimes. VP.Does it help that you have each other? P.Yeah, definately. J.We have to go to gigs together. It does mean that sometimes I can't go to gigs I want to to because he won't come. P.(singing) "We're forever together, never apart, sisters through and through". NR.My sister likes Spice Girls and Boyzone. J.Spice Girls are brilliant! VP.I used to teach karate with Emma from the Spice Girls! NR/P/J/NR. Wow! Q.Is it me, or can I hear Lillian playing? P.I think we should go and watch them. And that was the speedy end to the interview The interview continued after Lillian in which it was learnt that: -Joanna's favourite chat up line is, "you are so distressing!"! -Richard NR failed in his bid not to "do an NME" and asked JAR for their influeces. They said, "The Pink Ladies, Karla, Georgia, Tommy Pollock and Ben Frigid". -Joanna's fashoin tip was, "Wear stockings, not tights", and Patrick's was, "Don't use eyeliner, use nail varnish"! -Patrick does not believe in God. He has his own god. -If Patrick could terrorise someone for the day it would be a bloke called Duncan Shaw from his old school. He'd give him a long painful day like in Scream, giving him evil 'phone calls and completely messing him up. Then he'd chase him through the house with a big white mask on carrying a big dagger. He'd then corner him and just before looking like he'd kill him he'd just go, "only joking", and run out the house! -Joanna likes horror films. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Chat with Jason Bennet by Andy-quirk I talked to Jason, lead singer with bennet, before their headline gig at the Guildford civic hall. bennet have been going since 1993, and since then have released two albums and countless singles on Roadrunner (whom they signed to in 1995). Their biggest hit to date has been the spikey indiepop song, "Mum's Gone To Iceland", although by the time you read this their new single, "The Horses Mouth", should be doing the business in chart land. A = Andy(me!). J = Jason. A: Your last single, "I Like Rock", like your previous singles, relied on a simple live set up. Do you intentionally avoid things like strings and brass? J: We do. We try a bit of brass on b-sides and stuff. We've got a friend who can play three or four brass instruments so we get him to go in there and do it. He's worn out by the end! We're like, "great, now track it with the trumpet..."! He is our brass section! We leave that stuff for b-sides really. The next single has two b-sides that have got a full eight piece string quartet and kettle drums and all that kind of business. It's really grand. They're sort of amateur people, who are very good, but you don't have to pay a lot. I think it's quite funny to have horns and strings on b-sides, but not do it on the album. When we went to do the second album we did think about strings. Initially we thought, "well that would be nice with strings and so would that", but I think strings are being a little over used at the moment. It's also a real temptation to try and make your second album different by just adding strings. We worked with Phil Vinyl, who worked with the Auteurs and Placebo. He said at the beginning, "you're not putting strings on", he had a more interesting way of working. He pulled apart every song, he got vocals to do basslines and guitars to do drum lines. It was a mess, but from doing that you eventually end up with a completely different arrangment. Basically, no, we're not tempted by strings. A: You're quite well known for your lone top fourty hit, "Mum's Gone To Iceland", do you think that the thing that helped that one succeed was the play it got on Radio 1? J: Definately yeah. You can see a real link between radio and chart positions. "Someone Always Gets There First", which we re-released after that got Evening Session play and some John Peel. That got to number sixty five, which is very good for an indie single. But, "Mum's..", got Breakfast Show play and went to number thrity four. It definately makes a difference. "I Like Rock", didn't get any airplay and went to seventy three or something. The problem is we never really set out to be a chart act. We're not on a huge label and stuff. We never saw us being any bigger, no that I didn't want to be, than Urusei Yatsura or somebody like that. But because we've had a top fourty hit now everybody thinks we're this band that's stabbing at the top fourty, which we're not. We're happy, we're a cult band in the U.K. and places like Holland. They wern't going to release our album in Australia 'cos they didn't think our stuff would go down very well. But they released, "Someone Always Gets There First", and it went down quite well. They've finally decided to release the first album over there. I don't look just at England. Having said I'd like another song to get on the radio. We're releasing a single called, "The Horses Mouth", in January, which is probably our best shot at getting on the radio again. A: So why do you think the radio support hasn't been there? J: You just cannot tell. It's just bizarre. They supported every single thing that Tiger brought out and, although I like Tiger, none of them did anything. Actually one went in, I think it was, "Race". All the others didn't even get in the top seventy five. It's all very odd. They gave us some good reasons for why they didn't like, "I Like Rock", they said it was too cheesy, which it probably was! Radio 1 have gone very weird at the moment 'cos of XFM. Their play list is spasmodic and all over the place. I don't know, but it happenes to so many bands. If it was only us getting ignored then I'd be worried, but it's not. It's not like we're not liked at Radio 1, that's the weird thing. We did the roadshow over the summer. Zoe Ball said recently we were one of her favourite bands. Simon Mayo likes us, and so does John Peel. We wonder why we arn't on the radio more. It's not worth worrying about it. A: How did the roadshow come about? J: Literally they just rang up our record company and asked if we'd be interested. We said yes definately, it's rare Radio 1 ever ask anything, usually it's the other way round. It was brilliant, it was like a holiday! We were staying in really nice hotels for once. They wanted us to hang out with Radio 1 all the time, that was the whole point of it. You get up, it was a lovely sunny week, mime to two songs and then just hang about the rest of the day. We got on really well with a band called Monorail who were on as well. It was like going on holiday with ten mates! We'd love to just do roadshows all year! A: What did you think of the other bands who were on? J: The Dust Junkies were very nice actually. They don't look it, they look very frightening! I was a bit frightened when I first saw them! Our drummer at the time, who's since left, went up to the singer and said, "You're m.c. Tunes arn't you?" And we were like, "oh no!". He just said, "I don't do that m.c. Tunes shit no more". They were really nice. They were permanently off their faces, err allegedly! They just danced every morning behind the big Radio 1 thing! They'd dance to anything, Kylie, dance tracks, Spice Girls, they just danced to it all! That kind of lead me to believe they were running on more than just enthusiasm! A: "Street Verses Science", is your second album on Roadrunner. Why do you think a traditionally heavy rock/goth label picked up on you? J: I have absolutely no idea! They intially wanted to change their whole U.K. thing. They'd just signed a band called Wormhole, who have now dissapeared without a trace. At the time Wormhole were getting quite a bit of support from Peel, and I quite liked them. Then at every London gig Roadrunner were asking to sign us so eventually we said okay! They fucked up a bit on the first album, they know a bit more about what they're doing now. I think they've changed their mind now and want to go back to more metal stuff. So it's quite weird 'cos we're the only band that isn't metal on the label. They have a dance wing, that did Technoheads, but apart from that there's only us and Sparks who arn't metal. A lot of the people who work there arn't in to metal, which suprised me. In my experience every record company is fairly shit, you just have to get on with it. Sometimes I wonder why they signed us, but they did. A: bennet have quite a quirky image, do you think the new album will change people's minds? J: I read the words, "cheeky chirpy", so much. It really winds me up because I'm one of the least chirpy people I know! People's pre-conceptions of the band are pretty one dimensional. Obviously it's frustrating playing live when you want to play something new and people are just shouting for, "Wanker". They're going to do that tonight, I can tell. We changed quite a long time before the album was recorded, we knew it would be different. We just wanted to make another very good pop record. We're not writing about so many characters any more, I think cheeky music is when you write about characters. Now we're writing about situations or more personal things. I'm far more proud of the second album than the first one. The first album was good for putting on before you go out, and this one is probably better for when you get back. A: You used to introduce "The Horses Mouth", as, "Generation Pepsi", in your live set. Were you forced to change the title? J: Yeah we were. It's the next single so we had to be careful. It was like with the Iceland thing. Virgin Radio and The Chart Show wouldn't play it because they thought it was advertising. Pepsi would stomp all over us, Iceland are piddly so we told them to fuck off! If Pepsi saw us use the name then they'd be annoyed, they've got the Spice Girls, they don't want some scuzzy little indie band with a single with Pepsi in the title. We're a weird midway band where we're not big enough to pay them, and not small enough for it to go unnoticed. Our lawyer said it would be better to play safe. A: You've supported a lot of bands, which ones did you like the most? J: We've become good friends with most of the bands, Dodgy, Number One Cup, Garageland, Echobelly. It's much easier to pick out the one I've disliked the most. That would be My Life Story. It was an eight date tour but it seemed like a million years, it was hellish! They're such a clinical band. It wasn't like a tour, it was like a tour with a pantomime! Jake Shillingford, in my opinion, is a very rude man. I don't think they wanted us on the tour, I think they saw us as noisy oiks. They asked for Rialto to go on tour, they're much more up My Life Story's street. Rialto are very nice guys, and in my opinion, a far superior band. The promoters added us because the tickets wern't selling too well. I got the impression we were very unwelcome guests, even though we were put as special guests! It was a bit of a mismatch anyway. A: What do you think of the other bands playing tonight? J: Jocasta, really I don't know a lot about them. I doubt I'd buy their single, I prefer my music to be a bit spikey, and they're very rounded. Daytona are nice people, but a little too mid American rock for me. I've not heard Dustball, so I might check them out tonight. A: What future plans do you have? J: This year we'll finish off the tour with Echobelly. Today was meant to be a day off but our agent stuck us here! Then we release the next single at the end of January. We'll probably tour for that. If I'm honest I think we've done all we can as bennet with this album. That sounds depressing and on the verge of breaking up, but it's not like that. We want to really go for it promoting this album around Europe. I don't know if we'll ever make a third album, I think there are other things we want to do. I want to do lots of things. I'd like to do music and get paid every month, to me that's better than trying to get really big with one band. I'm not really looking very far ahead. If Radio 1 don't pick up on the next single then I'll probably have to think about things. I'm co-hosting a show on XFM in January, I'll make sure it gets played there a lot! I want to meet Zoe Ball again, now I know she's a fan. with that Jason went off to go and find his band mates... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chatting to Freeboy by Andy-quirk Freeboy are a five piece from Cambridge. To date they have two releases out, "But I Am/Freeboy" on Groovy Cat, and, "Rocketship", on Plastic Cowboy. Since starting in February '97 Freeboy have acquired a loyal following, mainly through the fanzine network. I spoke to them after their set at the Plastic Cowboy night. Although the whole band were present only Jason, the guitarist/singer, was particularly vocal. A = Andy (that's me!). J = Jason. FB = another member of Freeboy. D = Dee (the manager, also an expert in dancing whilst drinking from a beer bottle!). A: How did you think the gig went then? J: (after general banter with the keyboard player) I thought it went well. A: It's been said that many bands don't like playing in London, because of the sorts of crowds. J: If you're any good you can win them over, getting them dancing is completely different though. If the place is packed you can get them dancing, trying to fill the void at the front of the stage is always really difficult. Unless there's lots of people you know, like from fanzines and stuff. A: Is that specifically about London? J: Anywhere really. It's difficult playing gigs, full stop really. Then again, if the place is packed it's a piece of piss if you're any good. I think. I better just say that Maria (keyboard player) nodded there! A: Your music is what could be described as standard guitar pop, what is it that you think differentiates you from say, Dodgy or Cast? J: Well, none of us smoke dope and we're not up our own arseholes! The Dodgy comparison is fair enough because at least they're reasonable songs. I'm not answering the rest of this question though as I find it an insult to be compared to Cast. A: I didn't say you did sound like them! J: Well, Cast, I don't think so. A: You've been championed by a lot of fanzines, do you think you would have had the same level of interest if Dee wasn't your manager (for those who don't know, Dee edits All About Dee And Friends fanzine, the NME have called her "queen of zines"!)? J: We havn't got a level of interest yet have we Dee? D: A level of interest? errrr. J: We do have interest from kids with enthusiasm. D: I don't think it makes a difference.. J: ..with getting a deal or anything. D: I think they may have got interested because of my fanzine. J: It's obviously handy having someone who knows them. It means we don't have to send out so many things because some people will come on Dee's name anyway. It saves a bit of time, I don't think they're interested just because of Dee. A: So it may start an initial interest? J: Yeah, I mean, they started liking us over a year ago so, you know, could other kids start liking us now please? A: Do you see fanzines as a good base to start from? J: Yep! A: That's good! Anyway, tonight you've done a gig to promote your new single on Plastic Cowboy, which is part of Guided Missile, is there any particular reason why you're on Plastic Cowboy rather than.... J: They asked us! I mean if anyone asked us we'd let them put something out by us, well actually a few people have asked and we've said no but, hmm. Paul (Plastic Cowboy's label boss) is very enthusiatic and he rings me up and just goes on about how much he loves us! If someone is willing to do that, whether they're lying or not, then I think that's as good a reason as any to let them put out records by you. We really do not have any money. Everyone in the band is putting in money to various extents, I put in the least 'cos i'm the poorest. We all put in a lot and we need other people to put in a lot as well. A: I assume you intend to get signed (duh!) J: Shall we get signed? Yeah, I think so. A: Would you differentiate between a big indie and a major label? Or do you see there's no difference? J: Well there isn't because distribution is all major, for any label worth it's salt. Most of the funding is done by major labels so I think you just have to find people you get on with that are really enthusiastic about you. Although you're always going to deal with a load of wankers in the long run I think! If someone comes up with the money to let us do what we want so no-one has to work then I don't care if it's a major label or a big indie label. A: Are you at the moment a full time band? J: Everyone works apart from me. The only work I do is the band. We're by no means a full time band. It's very difficult getting down to gigs like this. Everyone has problems getting time off work, but we're professionals. We'll get over those obstacles. We turned up really late and the other bands were all fretting because they were using our drum kit. The rest of the band turned up with the drum kit, and we had to hire a bass amp and everything. We unloaded and unpacked and did our soundcheck within about five minutes! It was really quick 'cos we know what we're doing. The band that are now coming on, Appliance, I like their music but.. FB: ..they took ages. J: They'd been waiting for hours for the drums. Then when we'd set the drums up they were like, "I suppose we better try and find some drum sticks"! And you think, "for god's sake!". Then they faffed around on stage for ages, then said, "we havn't got one of our band members here so we don't need to do a soundcheck", and we're like, you could have saved us twenty minutes! So, yeah, I can't remember what the question was! A: errr, well you've nicely deviated. J: yeah. That's Dee's new dance label, "D V 8"! (chuckle chuckle) D: D-V-8 J: yeah, clever innit! A: The mainstream music press has largely ignored you, it has to be said. J: That's for a reason, they havn't heard of us! They havn't really had any reason to have heard of us. A: No? How come bands a similar size to you, like Disco Pistol, get single of the week in the Melody Maker? J: They really deserve it. They've been doing a lot of media whoring! If I was in London all the time I'd do it as well. A: So you think it's a case of if you're in London you're in? J: It certainly helps. If you know where all the parties are at the very least you can do is go and get drunk. If you bump into a journalist and get in their back pockets, or their back passages, or whatever, then it can't do any harm! They deserve it though, where did we see them? FB: Camden Palace. J: Yeah, for Dee's birthday. They were absolutely brilliant, coming on in leaps and bounds. They're one of the best pop bands in the country. They did their second gig supporting us in Cambridge, they were good then but they've transformed themselves now. It's partly to do with money. I think they rehearse a lot. Do they? D: They practice pretty regularly. J: They've certainly got very good equipment now. And stuff like that, and.. D: ..Image consultants. They really do! J: They have got money piped into them, and you need that. We'd like some money! A: Do you think the band has an image? Is it important to you? Will it ever be? J: No. A: So you just get up and play? J: Well, we don't all look completely different. He's wearing a dark top and jeans, so is he, Maria always wears dark things. Actually Maria has worn some bright dresses, as have we all at some stage! Actually, I was the odd one out tonight, I had a bright top, should have worn a black shirt really. If you havn't got a strong image people will.. nah actually I was going to say they listen to the music, but they obviously don't otherwise we wouldn't be playing shit holes like this! A: If it was all of sudden to get big for you would you have a problem with terms like, "selling out"? A term strongly associated with the indie scene. J: If you want to sell records you have to sell out. Every point along the way involves exploitation of some kind. Every contract says that they have the right to exploit everything. "Selling out", that's a load of bollocks, people who havn't got talent moan about other bands selling out. We've got talent so to get anywhere we've got to sell out. You've got to give someone the rights to your songs, which is selling out. You've got to give someone the rights to your t-shirts, which is selling out. You've got to give a record label and a publishing company your soul yo get anywhere. We've got to sell out to get bigger dressing rooms! At least if we have dressing rooms with beer and a mirror then we can work up to getting the little lightbulbs! Selling out, fucking hell yeah! A: So what are your immediate plans for the future? J: I don't think we have any! We'd like the chance to record. We've only ever recorded a handful of songs. Our new guitarist has only had two practices! We're not really doing anything until the new year, two gigs that's all. We want to practice more. But rehearsal rooms cost money. Only two of the members can drive, the logisitcs of sorting out a practice are huge. A: Well that's my questions. Would anyone else like to say anything? J: I'm sorry I'm sorry! I'll just go now, everyone else can answer the questions! If they don't then you can't say it's my fault. You can't call me an egomaniac! A: Okay, I won't. ..and that was that! -