Yeah C4 is a crappy music TV channel here in NZ (part of Canada's CanWest networks)... They mostly play bling-hop and ©rap for kids.

So the lameness of the interview isn't surprising, not least the references to the guy who actually interviewed them previously here in NZ.

Nice interview, Kermit - thanks for finding it and posting it here. I particularly found a few bits in that piece that were interesting like Salmon Dance and Tom's take on the word "progression". It makes sense. I also found this bit interesting:

"It's almost like making music so people don't have to take drugs."

Polar opposite Spaceman 3's - Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To, haha!

Anyway, I'm not going to pretend I don't enjoy getting fucked up from time to time, I like to party - though I don't do that sort of thing often these days because I simply can't. Not if I want to be funcitonal and based in any sort of reality.

A couple of personal anecdotes I would like to point out about We Are The Night is that for me it's incredibly intense, lush and psychadelic and I feel these rushes of adrenaline when I listen to it sober which is actually greater than 99.99% of the time. :P We've tried listening when we were way in over our heads a couple of times this past summer. Since I'm being honest, truth be told We Are The Night - for us - was actually too intense, too much of a head fuck for us as-is and we had to come back a bit more level headed later on to listen. This happened to us twice (it was a relatively quiet summer in terms of parties) with We Are The Night. Anyone else who has done drugs or drank a lot or whatever have this type of thing happen to them with any Chems album?

Now - if an album can make me feel high even when I'm not, that must mean something in that it creates a head space that's all part of the musical journey.

How true. I felt the same way about CWU. As someone once said during that era, "This gathering of musical oddities is the best legal way to leave your head" I think about that phrase all the time.

"I love it when people say, 'Wow, that made me feel like I was out of my mind and I wasn't on anything.'"

I will first come rigt out and say it, I don't like drugs. In my life it's always turned into negatives, never positives so I try to steer clear of them. I'm not going to stop anybody but myself from anything drug related at the end of the day. saying that, really what Tom said right there really personifies what I've believed for years now, probably since I started listen to the chems back about 10 years ago. This may be coming back to a 'boyhood' crush (not quite in that way though) thing but it kinda reaffirms my hero status in Tom.

What a refreshing interveiw. I'm so very excited to confirm what I hoped was true. The attitude about creating music and working so hard to obtain a final product makes me increadibly happy. It would be one thing if their music was great, but they were dicks.... i.e. Paul Okenfold. I've met him personally on more than one occasion, and I know for a FACT that he's not a very nice person. Sure he makes great music (which is questionable by some I'm sure).

My point is, the Chems create wonderful and inspiring music, but they are humble about it, and are always striving to make themselves and their work better everyday. The more I learn about them, the more the prove themselves to be so very mature. Class acts I say!

Small chat from The Independent

http://arts.independ...icle3073817.ece

Nice interview, all good.

That's good, Kermit - thanks for finding that.

I like how they always speak of their friendship as the force that's held them together through the years. So many bands deteriorate over creative differences which (from what I gather) have to do with more a breakdown in communication and friendship than anything else - so it's always nice to hear the friendship part of Tom and Ed's working relationship as being key.

great interview. I love how tom says he's gone through 5 copies of live at the social.

I listened to the first half of WATN while very high on shrooms and it was one of the most intense musical experiences of my life.

I definetly appreciate the notion that their music acts as a substitute for drugs but it is undeniable that chemicals enhance it to an unfathomable degree.

Good interview. I enjoyed the part about live at the social too.

http://www.muchmusic...s.asp?artist=55

I'm sorry but I had to laugh at this. From CWU era. It shows that Rick (the temp) knows very little about...well anything....

from the Japanese site. Very intresting interview were you can't hear the interviewer but tom and ed give some intresting answers. Also, No need playing in the background as they dj at womb in shibuya from earlier this year.

Real player vesrion

http://t-emirealod.s...AbhdxBoc7e8cfng

Windows media player version

http://www.emimusic....chems_web02vf_b

the one on the france24.com is hilarious. ahahaha.

she says : WATN is kinda like DISCO!!!!!!!!! hahaahahahahah. and then brothers say : "yes and it's like hard rock too , we kinda mix things up and survive in between" ahahahah .

AMMC is disco.