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Just gigging around up in London?
Well no, about a year and a half/two years in London.

What have you been doing for the three years then?
Well basically it's just been a sort of slow process building up things. We started out doing things really irregular, maybe only playing shows maybe once a month, not that much, working up to how it's going at the moment. We've been signed to East West since the end of January. There's a twelve inch, and we've been working on an album and hopefully that will come out later this or earlier next year. We had a seven inch out about a year ago. We recorded it ages ago but it took a while for it to come out but as it was a small label it took a bit longer. None of the big independents were ever really interested in us. During that three years we sent out a lot of demos to the labels that we thought might be into it but we never had any response. And then we started playing London more and the guy from East West came and saw us and that was it really. It was just a case of it was the first interest that had been shown in us and the deal was set up which meant we could leave our jobs and do the band as a full time thing which of course is what we wanted to do. The label as such we weren't really bothered about. It was just there. We told them that if the deal was right then we could put out whatever records we want to and do artwork ourselves and stuff like that which we can. So if the deal was right the label wasn't really an option.

Do you play out a lot?
Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. The club that does do gigs is starting to get a bit of a name for itself, but that's more along the metal lines. Other than that we have to go into London.

Do you think that now you're on a big label you'll have more chance of crossing over?
I think we've got a chance of crossing over but whether or not it's into a more rock audience. We've been getting the rock press taking notes, and the NME and stuff. Like Kerrang, they're really into the band, they write about us all the time.