Aiden (drums) - (adopts silly voice) "Pretty, pretty gooood."

Al (vocals/guitar) - "Yeah good, I mean, I dunno how..."

Aiden - "The shows have been busy, we've sold alot of them."

Al - "I dunno if you would know that you would have a bad response, if you know what I mean? The people that like your album make themselves alot more vocal than people that don’t! I don’t think anyone would buy it, it's not that sort of thing, it's not shoved down people's throats, if you know its coming out, you're probably someone who would like it, cos your on our radar or we're on your radar."

Aiden - "So far it's been alright, we've had a good reception. People have been saying they’ve listened

to it 7 times in a row, and still not bored of it so that’s a good sign."

Clair - "Yeah I always find I have to do that with an album!"

Aiden - "I do it with songs; listen to it for like 50 miles, over and over."

Al - "50 miles! That’s how you judge it?"

Aiden - "50 mile journey! If I'm still alright with it, its a good song!"

Clair - "Just never set it as your alarm when you get up in the morning!"

Everyone laughs as the boys proceed to tell us what songs they have set as they’re alarms, singing

Greenday to us.

Aiden - "I now have Beastie Boys."

Al - "In San Diego, California."

Clair - "What was the process like?"

Al - "We did it all live to tape so we were stood around looking at each other, playing, if someone made a mistake we had to start again, but we did it in 4 days."

Clair - "The whole album?"

Al - "Yeah, it's quite an expensive way to record, so you can't mess around with it,  you gotta just do it, and that’s that, so that’s why it sounds the way it sounds, like not live, but it's certainly not cut and pasted together with solos dropped in here and there,

there’s none of that involved at all."

Aiden- "It's very raw, I've heard people saying it sounds raw, like in a good way, not in like, an 80's way, in the real way!"

Al - "Yeah, it's well raw."

Nic (bass) - "Raw, like a piece of raw meat!"

Al - "Last night!"

Clair - "How did it go? Was there a lot of running around?"

Al - "Yeah it was..fucked! We did 2 shows on Saturday as well, in Brighton and Bridgewater but we played Brighton at one o'clock, and then drove to Bridgewater. It was alright 'cos we got there and was like, 'got a while before the shows on', so it was like we played 2 separate shows, but this one (London) was like we played, packed the stuff in the back of the van, drove an hour across London, and then unload and literally played straight away! I mean like, that’s fucked!"

Aiden - "It was a tough one, but good practise, bands used to do it loads in the 70's, and I just think, if they can do it, we can do it, it should be easier these days, but turns out its just as hard!"

Aiden - "Hmmm... best thing..."

Al - "Best thing is going out and getting well, pissed, with all your mates around the clubs, and the worst thing is also doing that, it's the best and the worst thing!"

Aiden - "It does go hand in hand doesn’t it. The best thing is being away for so long, and getting really lost in your own weird world, but also in the end, that's what turns out to be one of the worst things about it, sort of lose touch with everything, and you go home for abit and you find it hard to adjust again."

Al - "Yeah, it's difficult isn't it, I suppose, being on tour. It's different to just playing shows as well, cos you can play like, random good shows, and that’s just great. We’ve got shows coming up playing with Bad Religion in July, and they’re gonna be good, even at their worse they’re still gonna be well good, but we played with like, Buzzcocks the other day! But we kinda went to the show but then came back, so we weren’t on tour as such at that point. It's different, tours can be different cos you sometimes link alot of smaller places in that you wouldn’t necessarily go out of your way to play, sometimes they can be abit monotonous and kinda like long, and like; where are you? what day is it? haven’t been to sleep for years...you know what I mean? So it depends what your interpretation of tour is, we're always playing loads of shows, that’s the thing, and then sometimes we do loads of shows and don’t go home, and that’s a tour..."

Aiden - "I realize we haven’t really answered your question!"

Al - "Well we have!"

Aiden - "In a way, best thing..."

Sonny (guitar) - "Partying!"

Aiden - "Meeting some people, meeting some guys you wouldn’t of met any other way, and getting into an environment, and you do just talk to people you wouldn’t normally. I like that."

Al - "The best thing is that last chord of the set, but in a good way, like way you feel like you’ve accomplished something, I always feel really good, and feel like pumped, and then feel hideous half hour after, when I realised I've gobbed and sweated out all the fluid in my body, and my head feels like its gonna explode, so that would be my best point and worst part!"

Aiden - "Usually bloody play!"

Nic - "We don’t like getting days off too often cos we lose the momentum you know? and so, I dunno if we got a day off

we'll probably just, depending where we are in the country, if we can, we've done this a few times in Leeds, we've stayed with

our friends, Chickenhawk (now known as Hawk Eyes), we'll just stay in and get a good selection of DVDs, just stay in bed, and just watch films, or watch like, the Metallica DVD."

Aiden - "We've had days off in Berlin, and you end up making the most of that, like in new places we try to have a look around

see what it's like. On our day off in London the other day we went to the bridge, literally we're always in London to play a show, just always, and we had a day of just nothing."

Al - "Why did we have a day off in London?"

Aiden - "Cos we had a show before and one after!"

Al - "Camden Crawl followed by..Skylight! Fucking hell, we've played London loads recently!"

Aiden - "So we just had this one day were we went to London bridge."

Nic - "We went to a bunch of pubs, just had an actual pub crawl!"

The band proceed to tell us about their pub crawl and some really hot noodles they had...

Nic - "This is probably boring now!"

Aiden - "Hmmm what does make a definitive computers song...?"

Al - "I say the ones that sound the most like the Computers are relatively, fast and sort of straight songs, like the second 

one we'll play tonight, I say that’s quite like a Computers sounding song, but then some of them sound completely different, so

to me that’s quite a difficult question to answer!"

Aiden - "I've often been told, by people that like the band, that 'Teenage Tourettes Camp', is the definitive Computers song." 

Al - "I would say that yeah, cos its like 12 bar blues, rock and roll, isn’t it?"

Nic - "Shouty."

Al - "And it's got guitar solos in it!"

Aiden - "Alot of people who haven’t heard our new stuff, it's the absolute hybrid of hardcore punk, rock and roll, it's all

in there so I guess that would be the one."

Al - "Yeah I'd say that."

Al - "We don’t know it!"

Aiden - "I know it!"

Nic - "Do you know the names of the songs well enough to know?"

Clair - "Yeah! we've got the album!"

Aiden - "Starting with how the album starts, then we're playing an old song, 'Track 4'..."

Al - "Yeah that’s like first single we released,"

Aiden - "And then we play 'Group Identity', the first single from this album, then that goes straight into 'Teenage Tourettes Camp',

there’s a little funky drum break in the middle, make sure you look out for that one! then into 'SOS', and then a new song; 

'Blood is Thicker.'

Al - "Then we stop then?"

Aiden - "And then we play 'Rhythm of You', and then, 'Hell Yeah', which is off the old EP, 

NIc - "And then 'I got what it takes'

Aiden - "A new one off the album, and then 'Music is Dead', which is our current single, I guess."

Nic - "And 'Please Drink Responsibly', 

Aiden - "An oldie but a goodie! Been ending with that for about 10 years!" 

Al- "Be ending with that forever!"

Aiden - "That’s our signature piece!"

Aiden - "I'm not into it, there’s pros and cons."

Al - "Aiden's not into it, mega not into but not in a Lars Ulrich type of way! He means he doesn’t have a computer and he doesn’t

download any music!"

Nic - "But I have a computer but I don’t download any music."

Aiden - "Also wouldn’t if I did!"

Nic - "I think Spotify is good, because you can still listen to loads of stuff, and do you pay for that?" 

Sonny - "You can do but it doesn’t go to any of the bands."

Aiden - "It's good for discovering lots of things," 

Nic - "I like collecting records."

Aiden - "We're sorta in 2 different gaps, cos in the band there’s record collectors, and likes to listen to cds, but then

there’s spotify as well which is really handy."

Al - "I pay for Spotify."

Aiden - "I do think if anything, it just seems weird to me for someone to put so much work and time into something for someone

just to take it for free, it doesn’t work in any other industry in the world but for some reason its acceptable in music."

Al - "It's cos its not a tangible thing."

Aiden - "But it depends how you view it, Art's Art isn’t it?"

Al - "And some people say Art should be free, but I would also say that bands can't carry on forever and you're gonna have to pay for music in some way or other, unless you only want to listen what 'the man' is telling us what to do. If you only want to listen to what Simon Cowell or bosses, suits of record labels tell you what to listen to you're not gonna have a choice in that and alternative music dies, because its not making any money, and people cant live off of no money."

Aiden - "It'll go back to square one, they'll never really die, it'll just be people playing for the sake of playing, it's all over tomorrow so fuck it!"

Nic - "What is this?"

Al - "The world, The Rapture!"

We launch into a discussion on how some religious nut believes tomorrow is the day of rapture.

Aiden - "It won't happen though, so don’t worry about it!"

Al - "I'd be a Macbook pro."

Aiden - "I'd be a Game Boy!"

Clair - "See we had this discussion whether consoles would count!"

Aiden - "Oh god, Acorn!"

Nic - "No you said Game Boy, that’s a good one!"

Aiden - "Oh is that alright?"

Nic - "Well if you like Game Boys!"

Aiden - "Aye! Actually there is another one called Sinclair c5! that’s a computer! It's a real computer! So yeah maybe that one!"

Al - "Spectrum zx!"

Aiden - "That’s it."

Nic - "We've got a van!"

Clair - "It's a good start!"

Al - "I would not want to be eaten by zombies."

Aiden - "We could probably do that thousand pound bummer thing,"

Al - "We'd probably bum each other!"

Aiden - "Go out on.... a bum!"

Everyone laughs

Nic - "Take shit loads of drugs and bum each other!"

Aiden - "I'd run off the edge of a cliff or something!"

Nic - "I wouldn’t!"

Aiden - "Where would you go?"

Al - "I'd try my hardest and when it looked like everything was going down, like we're gonna get eaten now, then I'd shoot myself,

or alternatively get hold of loads of heroin."

Nic - "And just shoot up!"

Aiden - "Hang on then, you could just become a zombie!"

Al - "That’s not cool."

Aiden - "They’re alright!"

Al - "They’re not alright! They’re dead!"

The band manage to convince Aiden that zombies aren’t cool and are in fact, not alright.

Al - "Yeah probs just say bumming and heroin whilst listening to 'The Queen is Dead',"

Aiden - "By the Smiths!" 

The Computers are gonna be around for a good while yet so make sure you pick up their album, "This is The Computers" out now on One Little Indian records.

Click below to see the photos from the The Computers gig at The Maze in Nottingham