WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING

Brian: "Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you.
The first album was a very sexual record, packed full of youthful vigor and lust. The new album is introverted, more of a post-coital depression: the comedown. It deals with an ever-pervading heartbreak and loneliness that seems to be in the air. The morning after is usually more analytical than the night before, and it's often more painful.
There's two years between the two albums, and there's been a hell of a lot of living going on during that time . In many ways it feels like a different band. This is our first album with Steve on drums, and the band dynamic has changed. It can seem a bit schizophrenic, but we'rer just trying to take it as far as possible in each direction: stretch it, and aim for a wider scope."

Stefan:" The first album was pretty much written by Brian in his bedroom. This album has been a three-way collaboration."

Steve: " It's more Brian who impulsed the ideas, but we definitely share his feelings. The album reflects the two past years we spent principally touring. We learnt to know each other, but Brian experienced a breakup (with actress Lisa Walker -poor Brian but :-) ), which is fortunately not my case as I'm married.

Pure Morning Stefan: " It started out as literally about five seconds of music, and by the end of the day we had a full song. It felt like it was handed to us on a plate."
Brian:" It was purely accidental, we went in to do some b-sides after the album was already completed and delivered. Suddenly we had a new song - it happened before we even had time to think about it.
It's a celebration of friendship with women, kind of immortalizing a couple of my friends. It's also about that time of the day when the sun's coming up and you're coming down;and everybody else is getting ready to go to work and you're feeling incredibly dislocated from the rest of the world; and all you really want is for a friend to be there to put their arms around you and help you ease into sleep."

Brick ShithouseBrian: " A disembodied soul floats overhead, observing the living. It's a ghost story, about somebody watching their lover make love to the person who killed them."

You Don't Care About Us Brian:"It's about an ex-lover having a furious rant at me for not caring and being wrapped up in my own head.Unfortunately, that's how I used to conduct my relationships: I was always imagining the end just as it was beginning."

Scared Of Girls Brian:"It's an investigation into male heterosexual promiscuity. Do male flirts do it because they really love women or actually because they're actually scared with women and themselves. I'd say that they are scared of girls."

Evil Dildo Stefan : "They were some threats that Brian received on his answering machine, which were pretty scary at the time. You really feel quite threatened by it. We had this one stalker who kept phoning us, a right pain in the arse, and I think she was playing it through a karaoke keyboard saying, 'I will come into your room, I will cut your cock off, I will stuff it in my mouth and I'll chew it with my little teeth', which is pretty horrible. Not the sort of thing you want to hear after a night out, at three o'clock in the morning. So we thought 'fuck you, we're gonna take this, we're going to make some money out of it and put it on the album'."'The working title of the track was Evil Dildo, which fitted in pretty well.' "

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