Dotmusic Webchat - 11/09/00

dotmusic: The Dum Dums are live in the webchat studio

Alyson from London: What would u be if you weren't in the band?

Ayisha! from London: What goes through your minds when you go out to perform a gig?

Josh: I'd be a stuntman like Le Majors in the fall guy

Stu: Plaqying footie for Rotheram or Crawley Town FC

Steve: I'd paint pictures...lock myself away

Josh: next question....

Steve: Will there be any people there

Josh: I must not fall over

Ayisha! from London: What is it like to be a 'Dum Dum' ?

Stu: Busy

Josh: Exciting. A barrel of laughs

Helen from Twickenham: If you could be any gardening tool, what would it be and why?

Josh: Steve would be a hoe

Stu: I would be some securtors - cos I want to see you spell that

Rebecca from Liverpool: Whats your favourite song to perform?

Keri from London: If you had to be a car, what type would you be and who would have driving it?

Josh: Heavy ones

Stu: You knock me off My Feet

Stuart from Dum Dums: Steve - How long on average do you spend in the bathroom?

Steve: Depends what we're talking about here - I was out in 5 minutes this morning. Josh doesn't spend any time as you can tell from where you're sitting

kath from kent: When you become stuck in a lift what would you say to the people who were in there with you?

Stu: I heard the last one of these crashed so you have to kiss me

Stu: to the girls of course

Steve: We're all going to die

Alisha/Alice from Worcester: What is the best piece of advice anyone has ever given you?

Josh: Write about things that are interseting - not just love all the time

Steve: That goes out to all writers of R&B

James from Birmingham: Some people try and pigeon hole you (as with most bands) - but you're different to most bands how do you describe your 'style' and do you pay attention to the 'category' you're put in, or what reveiwers say??

Josh: We're post-punk pop. We are diferent. There is no one doing anything like us right now. That's a good thing

Stu: A review is just one persons opinion. Put it in perspective, especially if it sucks

Michelle from Wales: What do you think is the bands biggest achievment so far?

Stu: selling a record and having people come to our gigs

Josh: Getting to our gigs on time

Steve from Dum Dums: Josh - When you are on tour you get spending money...what do you usually spend it on? (don't lie!)

Josh: Lately, I've been spending it on quiz game machines cos I want to double my money to buy more ffod. Usually that means I don't eat for the entire tour!

Alice K. Watts from Worcester: If someone asked you 'why' what would you say?

Stu: Why not

Josh: We're all going to die

Steve: Christmas is in under four months

Kerrie Weller from London: Whats your favourite line form a film?

Steve: Mine is Clint Eastwood in the line of fire 'I'll be peeing on your grave'

Josh: I've got one from dazed and confused - do you think that everyrthing we're taught at school is to service the future

Emma from Newcastle: Where do you get the ideas for your videos?

Stu: directors come up with the initial ideas then we improve on it

Josh: we choose all the treatments so we don't look too thick

andy from EDinburgh: where in the world would you much rather be right now?

Josh: I'd like to be in Disneyworld

anna from London: Do you respect Daphne's and Celeste's 'music'???

Steve: The jury is out on this

Josh: I like them as people becasue they are not thick like all the other pop stars. But their voices are too high. They sound like the chipmunks

Steve: I have no comment on this.

Louise from swindon: has there ever been a fight between any of u?

Josh: yeah. quite frequntly infact. If you hit each other on tour you have grudges for the rest of the tour

Alisha/Alice from Worcester: What's the most obscure thing a fan has asked you to sign?

Josh: pair of panties - though not on her at the time

Josh: they were clean

Stu: I wore them too

natasha from usa: are there any songs that make u cry

Stu: Take On Me by A1

Josh: It's very moving

Alice K. Watts from alisha@johnwat.globalnet.co.uk: Drummers have a habit of disapearing, or exploding or ripping their limbs off. Do the band ever wonder/worry if anything like that is going to happen to Stu?

Steve: we hope sometimes

Josh: It's a great gimmick

Stu: I'm planning my own

Stu: I'm planning my own combustion but it will have to be at a high point of our career

kath from kent: If you were to live in a fridge on top of mount everest what 3 things would you bring with you?

Steve: why would you do that?

Steve: a radiator

Stu: I would take a bunch of penguins to play with

Josh: I'd take a taun taun from Empire Strikes Back so I could slip inside its belly to keep warm

Steve: Take some muffs - ear muffs

chrissie from london: if you were superheroes, what would your names and special powers be?

Steve: Glandman - I'd be able to sweat over everyone who came near me

Josh: I'd be rabbit man - I'd hop on one leg everywhere

Stu: Being able to go faster then anyone in the world, and make everything slowed down

Stu: Milkshake man

niki from leeds: Madasun's vonda barnes fancies you. Is there any chance of a romamnce?

Steve: She's very nice....but when i kissed her i turned into a dwarf

Alice from Worcester: Have you ever really embarrassed yourself in front of another celebrity?

Josh: In front of Robbie Craig - He was hanging round some young girls, I said 'you better not get too close mate, they're jail bait'. They turned out to be his daughters!

Steve: After one too many beers at Party In The Park I ended up dancing infront of Lionel Ritchie and singing one of his songs

Stu: On the Big Breakfast Roseanne Barr walked past and I was talking about someone completely different. I shouted 'She Is so unfunny' as she walked by

Kath from basingstoke: if u were a kangeroo (hard to picture i know!) what would u carry in your pouch?

Josh: A gun

Josh: To kill all the hunters before they shot me

Stu: a monkey - to confuse all the wildlife experts

Steve: I could do with a pouch for my mobile

Kerrie from London: What song do you wish you had written?

Josh: I like Feeling Groovy by Simon & Garfunkel

Stu: Power Of Love by Huey Lewis and The News

Steve: Blow Up The Outside World by Soundgarden - and I wish I could do it too!

Linda from Sweden: Would you ever pose nude?

Josh: We've been asked already - we're in Melody Maker topless tommorrow

Louise from swindon: If you HAD to snog one another who would it be?

Stu: do we have to answer that?

Steve: Neither of them would snog me cos of my beard

Josh: Me and Steve would rather die

Alisha/Alice from Worcester: If you won a big award, who would you thank in an acceptance speach?

Steve: Thank God - just like everyone else

Stu: Linda from Sweden

Josh: .loads of different products to get free stuff - British Airways....etc

Kerrie from London: If you could change part of your body, which bit would you change?

Steve: my feet

Stu: my ears

Josh: make them bigger?

Josh: I can't think of anything...

Josh: My mind...

Rebecca from Liverpool: What made you decide to become famous?

Josh: The ability to meet pretty girls - aparently you score more when you're famous

Stu: our careers advisor

kim moores from manchester: whats the most rock +roll thing you've done since becoming famous?

Josh: we started a riot in Oxford and had to be escorted out by Police

supergirlie from london: what was it like dressing as girls in your new video?

Josh: It wasn't us - it was our girlfriends, and Steve's boyfriend old man Pete

Steve from Dum Dums: Stuart - Tell us about some of your superstitions and paranoia's

Stu: I have a thing before we go onstage - we have to have the same routine identically

Josh: to the tiniest detail

Sas Clarke from Sevenoaks: if there was to be a film made about you, who would you want to play you?

Josh: wicked question sas

Steve: I'd like Eddie Izzard to play me

Josh: Harrison Ford

Josh: Stuart wants Max from Hollyoaks to play him

Stu: Micheal J Fox

Steve: Samuel L Jackson could play me

Southern Crumpet from Angmering: What are you favourite coloured toothbrushes?

Steve: I have a array of them at home

Josh: I like purple colour

dotmusic: Time for couple more questions

Kerrie from London: What was your biggest fashion disaster as a kid?

Steve: See the centre page of our album that comes out on the 18th

Captaýn Hook & Greensleeves from Marmaris, Turkey: To all the boys: How many of each animal did Moses take on to the Ark?

Josh: It was Noah

Alisha/Alice from Worcester: Josh is famous for falling over, but have any of you ever really hurt yourself at a gig? (PS I got hit in the head by your amp last Wednesday!)

Stu: I mess my hands a lot cos the drumsticks hurt my hands

Matt from London: Given that you're as fake as a plastic Jesus and really nothing more than a poorly put together boy band, how long do you think you'll last?

Josh: Given that you're a nameless punk who has obviously never seen us live I think you should go home an keep listening to your A1 records

Steve: we are all swearing at you now

Sas Clarke from Sevenoaks: when did you write robotboy? whats it about?

Josh: It's about swayed by a crowd into believing ina certain thing. About the plasticity of modern life

Sas Clarke from Sevenoaks: do you choose what questions you wanna answer?

Josh: yes - that's why we chose that one

Alice K. Watts from Worcester: I heard a rumour that Stu wears his pants in the bath/shower. Is this true and if it is, WHY?

Stu: I hate that word. It's really because someone has drilled a whole in my wall and someone is looking at me

Robbie Williams from Ladbroke Grove: will you crap yourselves before going on stage infront of 12,000 per night?

Josh: Hey Robbie, are you going to buy our new single this week - we hear you love it

girl from hong kong: when will you come to hong kong?

Josh: we will conquer Hong Kong after we conquer America

Alisha/Alice from Worcester: If you had to cover one song, what would it be?

Josh: Call Any Vegetable by Franck Zappa...

Rebecca Kane from London: Josh: Marty Mcfly performs some fantastic guitar riffs and jumps wildly from various speakers in Back to the Future. Is it true he is one of your biggest influences when you perform live on stage ?

dotmusic: Final questions folks

Josh: yes - especially when he blows up his amp

crazylittlepixie Jess from essex : When the Dum Dums are finished, what do you want to remembered for?!

Steve: the band that did what we wanted, when we wanted

Stu: for writing good and memorable songs

Josh: speaking some intelligence into the bland pop-world

Josh: Thanks a lot for your 20 million questions - sorry we couldn't answer them all

Steve: come and see us on tour and we will answer all your questions

Josh: come and see us at dumdums.com

dotmusic: That's all from the Dum Dums webchat