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Charles: It's rolling? Wow! You are....Sly! OK, well I take back anything I said. First of all I wanna say that when you were asking me about like, 'Why aren't we there?' (watching Kitten), I was just in there but there were too many people...
P: Last I heard, they were a bit under the weather.
Us:They all had food poisoning.
P: Yeah, I heard.
Us: From the Duchess of York's
P: Yeah! DUCHESS of YORK!
C: YorkYorkYorkYork
Us: We're picking out stuff on the menu that caused it, so that we know when we go there. What did you have?!
P: HaHa. We had vegetarian lasagne, and you know, it may be a bug or something. But we think it was the Foooood!
C: We think it was the food...
P: Yeah, It was the food. Cos I was up all night. I didn't sleep at all.
Us: So you're Pumpkin?
P: Yeah, I'm Pumpkin.
Us: Is that your real name?
P: I weighed ten pounds when I was born and my dad nicknamed me Pumpkin. But it's stuck ever since.
Skinned Teener: How much do babies weigh when they're born?
P: I dunno....seven
C: Seven or eight...
P: Six or seven or eight or something like that.
Us: You seem to have been lucky with the amount of interest in you when you've only just put your first album out.
P: Well, we've been really lucky.
C: It's just because people totally fell for our scam!!
Us: It's all planned!
P: It's all a big plan!
S to M: There's a plan behind all this....
M: We brought a record factory, you know...
P: Everyone's in on it...
C: If you really wanna know what's going on, play the record backward!
M: We support the new, what's it called? the new crime bill...We support, uhh... What's this bunch of shit that you're on about? It's like, importing AND exporting.
P: Where Does A Big Thing Like You....(Fight!!!!)
C: (Master of Sarcasm)
P: Yeah...Livestock Exportation.
Us: It's a bit of an issue over here at the moment.
C: What is?
P: It's the drummer who...
Us: Livestock exportation.
P: Yeah, there was a lot of crying on that. No. It is cool (handclap). I am just kidding you.
Us: The next town along from Brighton, in Shoreham, there's massive riots down there, cos that's where they ship all their calves out from.
P: Oh really?
M: It'll be a nightmare getting the French ever to change their ways.
Us: As long as it comes with some kind of sauce the French will eat anything!
C: Yeah RIGHT! You don't fuck with their food, man!
Us: What's weird about the Shoreham demonstration is that people who actually eat meat are going down there.
C: Yeah, exactly. But they have no idea of the lives the adult livestock lead. It's not attractive either.
P: People've been really receptive. Like one guy's getting crazy, and one guy's standing in front of me, and "Is that guy singing the words?!" Like he's singing along to Guv'nor!
C: Just the record songs...
P: Yeah, just the record songs I think.
Us: A lot of it must have to do with you being on Wiiija. They're a bit of a cult label over here
Us: What sort of reception do you get in America?
P: We went on tour in october. I think again that we were lucky with that...We did a real quicky; we did it in a month. We'd drive twelve hour days. there was no drinking, forget it. You couldn't even have a beer because you drive there, if necessary have a soundcheck, you play and then it'd be one o'clock or two o'clock, you'd have to wait to get paid and then you'd go to bed and you'd wake up the next morning and have to drive, like nine in the morning for another twelve hours or so, so you have to break it up, east coast, west coast, and then you have to get time off work, and like...
Us: You've got day jobs aswell then?
P: He doesn't. I do.
Us: He just lounges around and...
P: He does all the Guv'nor work, which is pretty time consuming but he'll get it done. I work for an agent who represents photographers, stylists and make up artists. I do everything, answer phones, walk the dog.......