14.Nov.08 - Mishmash Magazine '10 Questions' Interview

1. What bands did you listen to as a kid?
Dahmer: I cranked the volume up on my dads Queen, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd records when I was really young. When I started getting into my own music, my first records were Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Nirvana and Ugly Kid Joe! I've always been into rock but didn't get in to metal until I was 16 or 17.

2. What's the first concert you ever attended?
Aydin: It was Marilyn Manson, Holywood Tour at Manchester Evening News Arena.

3. How do you prepare for a show? Any specific things you do to get in the right headspace?
Theo: A pint of Guinness and a quick warm up.

4. Where is your favorite place to perform?
Aydin: Anywhere where there are fans who want to see us play.

5. What's the worst thing that's ever happened at a show?
Dahmer: Probably Aydin getting Coke spilt all over his his Engl Powerball.
Theo: Dahmer had his bass nicked from a dive in Coventry, that sucked.

6. What's your favorite thing to do besides play music?
Aydin: I'm really competitive. I do karting, motor racing, I play a lot of poker. Anything were there’s a challenge. I'm a sore loser, but luckily that doesn't happen too often.

7. Do you have any guilty pleasures?
Theo: Many. One is eating lots of cake icing on its own.

8. What's your favorite Chinese-food dish?
Dahmer: Well it's not really a Chinese dish as such but you get it in Chinese takeaways and it is Singapore chow mein. I could live off that stuff. I love spicy food and anything with oriental flavour that is also spicy really is the dogs knackers!

9. If you were compared to an animal, what would you be, and why?
Dahmer: I'd be a sloth. Scruffy. Some say lazy but really just likes to take his time but who has a quiet dignity about him. I also eat bugs. Do Sloths eat bugs?

10. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever done at a show?
West: Each show is so unique, and the crowd is so individual. I suppose the most bizarre was when we were at a gig in Wales, we were getting shit off someone in the crowd, some drunk guy for the entire set. About halfway through second to last song I left the stage to have a fight with him and came back just as the solo to Perfekt Hate was finishing.