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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
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