• what's your earliest childhood memory ?
• what's your biggest fear ?
• if you had one wish, what would it be ?
• if you could join any other band for a day, which one would you choose and why?
• is there one song written by someone else you wish you could have written yourself ?
• can you name some of your all-time favourite bands and were any of them inspirational for U.T.?
• what's on your mind when you're on stage ?
• how did it feel when you went on stage for the first time ?
• did any of your former bands covered a song you might be ashamed of now ?
• is there someone in the music business you would really like to work or play with ?
• among all the new songs, do you have a personal favourite ?
• would you consider playing saxophone again for a song ?
• what makes you feel angry?
• what was your most embarrassing moment on stage ?
• what was the first job you wanted to do as a child ?
• would you be tempted to write music for a movie soundtrack and if so, for what kind of movie ?
• where do you get inspiration from to write lyrics ?
• who would you like to slap on the head with a dead fish?
• do you have a life philosophy ?
• would you be tempted to go back to Russia for a longer period of time ?
• which records do you like the most ?

Earliest childhood memory
Err... you know the stuff that you get underneath the carpet, this kind of bubbly stuff that you sometimes get under carpet well, it's that, really... LOL ...kind of falling around on that when I was obviously... I dunno, I must've been 3 or something. But generally speaking, my memories are very good and childhood I do have very much in a way of childhood memories but that's the earliest one and that really is all there was to it, just the carpet, I'm afraid, just this kind of blue bubbly rubbery stuff...

[Jim (sitting next to Andy): Underlay!]

...underlay, thank you. I mean,I could give you another one which is more specific but that's not the earliest one so there you go !

Biggest fear
I think my biggest fear unfortunately is probably err... being on stage LOL...yeah that's probably the thing that I find the most difficult. Generally sort of ...the fact is I'm a very shy person and err so anything which involves more than one or two or three people, any kind of group situation is...I find sometimes really really hard and obviously getting up on stage is an extreme form of that so sometimes it can be very difficult.

One wish
Errr....hehehe...Jim!! Help me out here! Not very easy.

[Jim : I'd really like a kind of '50s Gibson Les Paul if you can't think of anything better]

No, you're not having MY wish!! Well, I guess I wish that everything would be a bit less complicated.There you go...

Join another band ?
I'd like to be in the Tindersticks for a day and err...sing... no, I don't wanna say sing, you know, I really like the guy's voice but I also think that in a way it has kind of limited what they've done 'cos so many people dismiss them because he sounds like a pub singer or whatever but I think they're a great band and I'd love to be in their band for a day, yes...stop.

back

A Song he wishes he had written
Erm...well pretty much anything by Mark Mulcahy, I think... He just makes it seem that easy ...and if I had to choose one of his songs it would be... probably "Pull the Wagon" (ed: off Miracle Legion's album 'Me and Mr Ray') actually.

back