How would you classify your music?   Space Rock—Canterbury Style

Do you all have ‘day jobs’ and if so what do you do? I don’t like thinking about it!

What was the first vehicle you ever bought? The one I own now! Well actually I only own half of it. It’s my wife, Mandy's car really.

How important is commercial success to you? Not as important as artistic success. If I wanted commercial success above all else I wouldn’t play Space Rock!

When you where a child what did you want to be when you ‘grew-up’? I still am a child and will never grow up. My wife says my 4 3/4 year old daughter is more grown up than me! But if I ever do grow up I’d like to be a train driver.

Do/did you get on with your parents? Yes, but I’ll never forget the look of disappointment on my father’s face when he asked me to show him a picture of my favourite adult-”someone I admired”. I showed him a photo of Angus Young (lead guitar AC/DC) impaling himself with his Gibson SG, vomiting blood!

What do your children/family think of your music/lifestyle? My daughter loves ‘school of rock’ with Jack Black, so as long as I play the ‘smoke on water’ riff she’s happy! My wife introduced me to early Ozric's, although I think she regrets it now!

If a major label were to contact you about a contract would you take/not take it and why? That’s impossible to answer. It would depend on what the deal was! If it enabled us to concentrate on playing music and didn’t stop us doing festivals etc. then yes. It would be great to be able to pay the bills every month. I can’t imagine that a major label would ever sign a Space Rock band that plays 25 min instrumentals! It would almost certainly be a small label!

Did the music come after you had the musicians or did you know what you wanted in terms of sound and picked people you knew would bring that thought to life? We have all played together in bands over the past 18 years, whether it be the Ozric's, Damidge, Oligopoli or the Thunderdogs. What we play comes naturally to us—we just go with the flow.