Cheese?? A good thing or a fantastic thing???
Leigh: Yeah cheese is great. I like a nice bit of cheese.
Tony: Wensleydale
Leigh: Nah it's too crumbly
Me: Not good for your sandwich eh?
Leigh: No it's nice but I won't go in your sarnies! I like Philadelphia at the moment, with chives!
What song would each member of the band like to cover?
Leigh: We have shighed away from cover versions recently. We did quite a few when we didn't have so much of our own to play.
Tony: Me mum always said "well its ok but can't you play something we know?" so we just had to get our records played on radio so it was something she knew!
---Tony answers the mobile---
Leigh: I would like to have a Kiss cover band. I would love to get us all done up in the makeup and the rest. I can say this now 'cos Tone's on the phone but I don't think he would agree!
Which has been your favorite gig over the years?
Leigh: Its really hard is that. All gigs are different.
Me: Well I was going to ask which gigs were best, festival, local or London?
Leigh: Well they are different. London and local are more nerve racking. Festivals are a great laugh. Leeds99 was a great gig.
Me: Well I was there!
Tony: Apparently the Leeds campers were singing "Party over here, Fuck you over there" all night.
Me: In the field I was camping in it went on till at least 6am.
Tony: Shit Hot!
Me: We got into Melody Maker about that. One night we got a bit drunk and started talking about Thundercats! We ended up by singing the theme tune rather loud!
Leigh: Fame at last!
---Tony goes to toilet---
Me: I liked the Leeds United flags on your amps leigh.
Leigh: Yeah that was quite funny that. I though about doing it but i didn't have time to go to get any. Just before we went on the tour manager asked me if i had managed to get any. When I went on satge I heard everyone shouting Leeds but I didn't realise why unitll I went to check me bass!
Can the full story be told behind the platinum tooth or is it still in the courts???
Leigh: Erm I am not sure about that you will have to ask Tone. I think it is still with the insurer's courts. Basically Tony went into an old guy on his bike and broke his tooth, OR VISE VERSA!
---Tony returns---
Tone. Can we tell em about your tooth??
Tony: Nah it's still all up in the air!
Leigh: So was Tony at the time!
Under what label will the new album be released?
Leigh: Well are keeping are options open at the moment. We don't know who we are going with. We need to speak to all those concerned and work out what's best for us. This time though we will sign to the label best for us. With EMI it was right at the time but it turned out to be a bit of a fuck up really. This time we might go with someone big or we might go with an indie. This time we are gonna play it our way.
Tony: We might end up signing back to EMI for 32 million! That's what you are meant to do isn't it???
1st of the month was pay day for every artist and band in the industry. Did you buy yourself anything good??
Leigh: We have never been paid by EMI. We get publishing royalties and that but EMI haven't paid us a penny.
Me: Is that due to advances on albums and that??
Leigh: Yeah we got the money for the album and then we would never see any more money from EMI.
Tony: Until recently we were in debt to EMI but that's no longer the case.
Is the Best Of still to be called Whales and Dolphins?
Leigh: Well that's the plan. Emi have fucked us round so much though that we have nothing else to do with it anymore. Emi said they wanted to do the 'best of' CD so we thought of a name. We said we want to call it Whales and Dolphins - The Best Of Terrorvision, and EMI said great - but what have whales and dolphins got to do with anything???
Tony: The thing is no one we knew works for EMI any more. We don't like them and we don't think the staff like us a lot.
Leigh: When we first signed to EMI, we knew people there and they liked our music. Now non of them give a toss about us so we just thought well fuck it.
Leigh: When they said they wanted to do it we thought great. All our newer fans will be able to get a load of good Terrorvision songs on one album. But we didn't want it to just be singles. Discotheque Wreck was never a chart topper or in fact a single, but when we play it live I think it shows to be one of our better tracks! In fact we did some underwater filming for the cover. Thats another exclusive for ya!
Why was it put back to next year??
Leigh: We reckon EMI will now bring it out at the same time as our new album.
Tony: If we start getting in the public eye again EMI are gonna bring it out and let someone else do the work.
Leigh: If EMI bring out the best of when our new album comes out, another company will have done the promotion. Then EMI won't have to spend any money on it; they will just collect all the profit.
Is the B sides album still going to accompany it?
Leigh: We thought this would be a good place for some Terrorvision fans to get hold of some of the B-sides. Many of them might have missed a few and our CD's tend to be hard to find. So the B sides album would be a place to find them all. But we haven't done anything about that. EMI are going to do what they want. So they will be just lifted off CD's and put together on one album.
When are we going to here T Dance on stage again??
Leigh: When was the last time we played it?
Tony: Did we play it recently??
Leigh: I think we played it at one of those Uni balls.
Tony: I can't remember now.
Me: Well thing is it is probably the most talked about track on the Terrorvision mailing list, and I know a lot of people would love to hear it live again, including me!
Tony: With your long hair I thought you would be more… Rockier!!
Me: Nah I like it a lot, and I like the heavier stuff as well!
Leigh: Do you reckon we could get it sorted for tonight??
Tony: We would have to see what the other thought. It's a pity we aren't doing this in the dressing room. We could have done it just for you!
Leigh: We will have a word and see if we can fit it in tonight for ya.
Live at Don Valley statium is a bootleg, however you seem to endorse it? Who released it and did they have your ok??
Leigh: We know there are about 500 of them about. EMI did them but didn't put their name on them. They were just for promo and stuff.
Tony: I think there is about 100 out there cos I have 400 under me bed!
When EMI re-released Shaving Peaches with the Tequila remix on it did you agree or disagree with the decision?
Leigh: As I said we had already told EMI to fuck off at this point, nothing we said would have made any difference. I don't think anyone who had the original though went out and bought the new version
Me: (in a quiet voice) I did!
Leigh: Well we are sorry EMI made you spend more money. It's the classic record company ploy though. You re-release albums and make more money for doing nothing with them. They tried to do it with Regular Urban and How To.
Has there ever been a song you have been particularly proud of for what it achieved?
---Leigh and Tony look a little blank! ---
Me: Like Tequila for getting to number two, or for oblivion for its deep moral message!
Tony: Yeah me dad though it was really deep and meaningful. I didn't know what he was going on about, but I never did understand me dad!
Leigh: Probably Oblivion cos it got us noticed.
Tony: It was our first chart hit and it was cool to here it played in bars!
You have been out of town for a while, where do you go for a good night out in Bradford as a group???
Leigh: I don't go out in Bradford that much. We don't go out as a band that often either.
Tony: House warming!
Leigh: Yeah all four of us have moved house in the last couple of months. Not because we had loads of money or anything, it just all seemed happen at the same time. It wasn't planed or anything. So house-warming parties have been good nights out recently!
---Tony is asked to sign a few things---
If you decided to take a year out, what would you do to fill the time???
Leigh: If I could find the money I would go to Australia. I have always wanted to go there! Then I would probably play all the famous golf courses around the country.
Me: Alex (my technical assistant) plays a bit of golf!
Leigh: Yeah do ya
Alex: Once
---Tony gets back to the interview! ---
Tony: Do you find it hard? You know with all those windmills and stuff??
Leigh: Nah I play quite a bit. I have all the gear and everything!!!
Me: Even the jumpers
Leigh: Oh yeah I always wear the jumpers and that!
What's the best part of the job - recording, releasing and publicising or giging???
Tony: Playing live has got to be the best thing for me!
Me: You are getting a reaction right there!
Tony: Yeah when I come out on stage and say "Were Terrorvision form Bradford" the play goes fucking wild. Int dunt seem to matter where there are in the world!
Leigh: You need a bit of all of them. I definitely couldn't handle all publicising and we don't work well after more then 2 months in the recording studio. I love playing live but I couldn't do it all the time. You need a good balance!
Do you like all these unofficial Terrorvision Web sites and have you seen many of them?
Leigh: I am not really into computers, Tony's got one.
Tony: Yeah I mess around on it. In fact it's an exclusive for ya if you like. One of our news songs is all about computers and the Internet. The backing vocals in the chorus go "w w w w dot"
Leigh: It's an underworld in it? If we hated them we could do nothing about it. Its cool that people take the time to promote the band and talk about us.
What's happening with the fan club now Rob has gone or has he? - Mark and Jo from London
Leigh: Rob has kinda sacked himself. After we decided to get rid of the mail fan club he decided he was going to leave. He is still about and pops into the office on most days. He has started to be Shutty's tech. Rob's a drummer so when we needed a new drum technician Rob fit the slot! I think he is going to go to Australia. I think he has just sorted out his visas and everything.
What has been the most memorable/emotionally stirring moment of your lives as a band? - Fiz
Me: You met Fiz at the Mad about guitar show in Birmingham (I pop out a photo)
Leigh: Oh yeah I remember! Emotionally stirring? Probably meeting Fiz and her mates!!
Tony: Most memorable was probably our first silver disc.
Leigh: I remember that EMI gave it to us at some conference in Brighton, I think.
Tony: This bloke gave it to us and gave another disc to Eternal. After it was given to us, Eternal were shunted out of the way so they wouldn't get in our way!
Leigh: I don't know what they thought they we were going to do??
Tony: Ask the Queens of the Stone Age??
Leigh: Yeah American fucking twats.
Which is their favorite local pub? - Nicola
Tony: Well my favorite local pub would have to be the one local to my house as that's my local pub!
Leigh: I don't drink anywhere near my house.
Are there any plans to do a North American tour in the near future! - Pragya
Tony: Tell this guy if he can organize a tour we will play it. It doesn't matter whose in front of us as long as they are having a good time!
Will the next album (not the best of..) be along the same lines as Shaving Peaches or a different kind of sound? - Matt McCabe
Leigh: I shouldn't be answering this. I'll answer it as someone else. (In a welsh accent) "Hello, I am Dafid from the Stereophonics, I can't talk now I have a carrot stuck up me arse" We don't write a sound for an album. We just write songs! It does seem to happen that each album has a certain type of feel to it though.
Tony: We have written a few songs and I don't think any of them sound particularly similar to anything.
Leigh: We have written about 12 or 13 new songs but we don't know what will end up on the new album. What did you think? We played three of them in the sound check.
Me: I don't know. I find it difficult to say after one listen to the song.
Leigh: Well have another listen tonight and get back to us.
Does Tony still have his belly button pierced and does he still have the gold/silver trousers?
(Middleman/oblivion vids) - Kelly
Tony: Yes, and Yes and I would love to????? (Tony lifts his top!) Yeah the trousers right. Being a new rock star we dint have any money. So when I was asked what I wanted to wear I said, leather trousers. Then I thought why not spray them gold! It's like those suits we sprayed silver!! You can still see the spray paint on the walls in the practice rooms at In a City studios in Bradford!
Leigh lives in Silsden, can you teach guitar for my mum!?!
Leigh: yeah I do live in Silsden. You mean the junior school?? Cos wasn't a horror film recorded there? Ask your mum she should know! Nah I couldn't teach anyone to play.
Me: You started on a six string though didn't you??
Leigh: Yeah doesn't everyone. My dad bought me a guitar when I was about 12. I couldn't teach anyone how play guitar now though.
Tony: Carl Stipetic who we have worked with in the past could teach guitar (big grin).
Me: Well it made me think of Fired up and Liary with you and 'your' guitar teacher!
Leigh: Yeah that was really funny. We asked for an actor that could play guitar and piano. He could play ok but he couldn't act to save his life. When he does the tramp bit, he
couldn't remember any of his lines!
Tony: He was called Bomber I think. We saw him in London in some jazz bar, playing the piano. We were like, "It's Bomber!!!, Nah it isn't!! It could be!" We were going to shout his name but we all bottled it! Plus we didn't want to speak to him anyway!
So we can expect to see, the new album, A best of eventually, possibly a B sides album. Anything else up your sleeves??
Leigh: Not really. We just want to get this new album going and then we can have a think about other things.
Me: Right thanks a lot. One last question though. Is there anywhere safe I can put this bag of stuff while I'm in the gig??
Tony: I could take it for you but I can't promise you would get it back. I tell you what here is some advice. You know bins in the street right? Well if you take out the liner you can put anything in the bottom and pick it up later! You know when your mum says "your not going out like that" and makes you put a jumper on. Well put it in the bin and pick it up before you go home. Your mum think's you have been nice and warm all night!