So instead I sent them the questions by e-mail, with some alterations, and a few weeks later they replied.*
1. How did you feel, coming off the stage, after playing your last gig as
Dustball? How did the gig go in your opinion?
Hot, exhausted and
dehydrated.
2. Why have you decided to 'split' now?
We just felt we've taken
Dustball as far as it can go in that particular incarnation. Basically, we were
in a situation where we had elicited high expectations and then not really
delivered. We want to take a new tack, but if we do so as Dustball that past
(including all the associations both negative and positive) will continue to
pursue us.
3. What moment in Dustball's history were you most proud of?
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Difficult to answer, but off the cuff I'd probably say the Peel sessions. |
4. Which track was your favourite? Did you get annoyed by people asking
for 'Back for Good' at every single gig?
Unfortunately I don't think that
any of us could answer whick track was our favourite. The problem is that you
play stuff so much, and then you write new stuff and stop playing older songs,
that what you enjoy playing changes over time. For example, relearning all the
old songs for the point gig was really enjoyable because we hadn't played them
for so long, even though when we stopped playing them originally we were sick to
death of them.
I Wouldn't say we got annoyed - it was certainly a laugh the
first time we did it. I wouldn't say we got a buzz out of playing subsequently
though.
5. Do you regret anything you did as Dustball?
All those shit gigs
miles from home that you knew were going to be shit even before you got in the
van.
6. When will be the earliest to hear from the new band?
We're
recording a Peel session next Sunday which will comprise all new material. It is
unclear whether the session will go out under the name Dustball or under the new
name. We would obviously prefer it to go out under the new name. Other than that
we'll re-surface to gig probably sometime in the new year.
7. What will happen to all the new Dustball tracks that you were working
on earlier this year?
Most of them will be lost alas. A few of them have
been reworked. But never fear, the new stuffs better anyway.
8. If a major label offered you a multi album deal for Dustball, would you
rethink your decision?
Probably not.
9. Someone suggested that you would come back as Gutfisher...have you seen
the film yet?
er..no.
10. Did you know what you were letting yourselves in for when you were
asked to be in the film? (ie the costumes etc)
We had an idea, or at least I had an idea (I didn't tell the others because I knew they'd object), but we didn't see the full work until the night we arrived in Edinburgh. It was easily worth the humility though. However the film turns out we had a great laugh doing it thanks to Jon et al. |
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R.I.P.
Well it saved me some typing time anyway!