That is a deep question. If I am honest, I would say we probably use humour because it is the safest way to deal with things that feel uncomfortable and even painful. Sometimes you have to laugh or else you cry. I love the kind of dark, ironic humour that Douglas Adams had.

Humour can allow you to be detached, and I am interested that you see ours as “observational”, because I guess that is what it is – making us a bunch of voyeurs! It is also a good way of cutting “authority” down to size (as any school kid taking the piss out of their teachers knows!). That fits quite well with the idea of “Fighting the Words” – don’t take the ideologues too seriously.

Finally, I have always found that if I say things too seriously, people won’t listen. Which is probably fair enough!

Once we have (finally!) got them finished we are putting them together as a CD. Dan has been busy with the artwork – there is some pretty good stuff that I will probably put up on ReverbNation when I get round to it! I as still trying to work out the best way to get the CD “released” – we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

I would try not to.

If I had to, I would say that most of the songs come from grossly over-ambitious attempts by me and/or Dan to try to do something way beyond our ability. We then tend to kick it around in jam sessions, which kind of fits in with the Bridport “scene”. Leon has described it as “woodland jazz”. Finally once we have some ideas, we go begging to Keith to make it work. Somehow he then manages to do so.

I have a long backlog of stuff going back years. Several of these are on ReverbNation in their own right – Hissy Fits and Dark Material are sort of early versions of what we are ding now. There is a lot of stuff I did in bands with my wife, Ros (Schrodinger’s Cat, Uprising, Greenhouse Effect, Mind the Gap, Hieronymous Fisch and Barnimagrew). Ros has her own project now – Epic Diva.

Dan is working on stuff with other musicians in Bristol. He previously did really experimental stuff with a friend of ours called Lee Gerard. Some of that is probably on the net somewhere (possibly on Lee’s My Space site).

Keith does all kinds of stuff as a producer. He also has his own project – The Recidivists – with material on ReverbNation.

Yes, definitely. It is completely revolutionising music and we are in one of the most amazingly creative phases for many years. Suddenly control over the distribution of music has shifted totally. I am trying to get my head around it still and am absolutely in awe of people like Steve Does and Lisa Be who are trying to use this to shape a totally new approach.

I come to this as an ageing technophobe and I am still getting used to the various sites out there. ReverbNation feels like “home” and I loved the sense of shared community that is generated there. But it has limitations for getting music heard. Basically it is musicians talking to musicians. Nothing wrong with that – in fact that is fantastic. But I am still looking other places that offer chances to find wider audiences.