Who's who and what's the line up?
Greg: I'm Greg and I play guitar
Pete: I'm Pete, I play drums
Mads: I'm mads, I sing Frank: I'm Frank, I play bass Jon: I'm Jon, I play guitar...
What's a brief history of the band?
Mads: Formed in '93, played loads of shitty shows, as Mr Zippy cos we didn't
have a proper name, erm, I haven't got my head on...er, what else it
there...John, you should just take over and start again! Jon: So we played a load of shit shows, er, various members came and
went, er...and we've settled down with this nice line up! In around a bout '98,
we sort of grounded our selves and got onto getting an album out, basically and
then just kept doing it ourselves un till where we are today
Why are you called Mr Zippy?
Mads: We were drunk down the beach, and er, we were listening to Mr Bungle
and we just thought for a laugh why don't we call our selves Mr Zippy, Just for
one show and then get a proper name, and 10 years later we've still got the same
name!
How did you get on Golf Records?
Jon: Er, well, we kinda snuck in the back door actually, we got in contact
with someone that was trying to get our record distributed, and then we found
out they had started a punk label, and were lookin to sign bands, we heard a
rumour that they were interesting in signing us, so we just kept bugging them,
and bugged the shit out of them! We sent them porn, a porn video with like, our
music over the top of it. Greg: Yea, and they kept on saying no to us actually, and them when we
finally sold out of the album that we pressed ourselves, we looked for some
companies to re press it, and one little company said yes, but we thought just
for a laugh we'd try Golf again and they said yes!
What's the best gig you've played and the best band you've played with? Mads: Hmm....I like this tour with 4ft fingers *all agree* Pete: It's good cos they're our mates, and it's better doing a tour
rather than one off gigs.. Jon: We've played with some really good bands, like Kenisia, Adequate 7,
Gash, King Prawn are really good to us... Me: They played at the first gig I went to, back in the day... John: Yea, I mean we've known king Prawn for so long, since they were you
know, same as us I spose.
Who do you think are the best bands in the scene?
Mads: Adequate 7, Kenisia, 4ft, My Dad Joe, *Dougie
from 4ft walks in* Dougie: Hey, how ya doing girls?
Me: A Mixtwitch t-shirt! Take it off!
Jen: Take it off and burn it! Dougie: Not fans anymore?!
Me: No, I love them really. Well, most of them!
Mads: Dougie's so fucking drunk tonight! John: Put in the interview that Dougie has rudely interrupted us!
Mads: Anyway, for the best bands on the scene I'd have to say just look at
the thanks list on our albumŽ
What's the funniest thing that's happened on tour?
Mads: Running through a field naked Greg: With 4ft, at 7 in the morning! Mads wearing a balaclava, and he
jumped over a wall and got...
Mads: Dog shit all over my hands!
Jon: I've gotta say, the funniest thing I've seen so far is erm, when we had
a big party and i went to bed really early, and I woke up in the morning and
found a camcorder right next to my bed and picked it up, and the first thing i
saw was Frank driving around on this motorised lawn mower, Band he just starts
off as a spot in the distance and slowly comes towards the camera on the lawn
mower going 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeey'
What's a strange and disgusting fact about each of you?
Jon: Nothing, we're all really clean, don't do anything like that!
Frank: I pegged my balls up on this tour!
Me: What?
Frank: I put pegs all over my cock, and what else is there....I snotted all
over mybass as well and....I had a pint of piss too.... I didn't drink
it, I was just trying work out what the body temperature was and how hot it was
in the venue. My piss was colder than the venue too!
Jon: Ellis, who stood in for frank for a couple on shows, he ate one of
Pete's bogeys! Now, Pete has the most minging nose ever, and he picks his nose,
and pulls out the biggest blackest thing ever, and Ellis just says 'oh nice' and
ate it! Frank: Rob from 4ft also tore Ellis' ass hole..
Jon: Yea, by giving him a wedgie during a wrestling match in the back of the
van on the way back from Norwich!
What are your porn star names?
Mads: Is it mothers maiden name, and first pet, or first cuddly toy?
Me: First pet! Mines Hartley Dyson Aww, mine, using first pet is crap - Tammy Hibbard, but if you use first
cuddly toys name, it's Big Ted Hibbard!
Joey Wood
Greg: Mines Cat Lias, which isn't really too cool actually! Me: You called you cat cat?
Greg: Yea, well I named it when I was really little and i just used to go
'Cat!', so we called it that! Er, mine is socks Lewis Best one ever - Biggles Big wood! Me: Best one I've heard is G-star!
Mads: Nice!!
Have you named your van:
All: Yes!
Me: What's it called?
Mads: Apu!
Me: Aww!
What's the worst band you've played with?
Mads: ooh we cant say that! But I will say that there was this one gig where
a shit band stole all our beer!
Jon: Actually, this one band, the fucking Lockdown project, right are the
biggest bunch of fucking wankers! Me: who are they? Jon: Exactly!
Mads: Should you really be saying this?
Jon: Yes. I don't like the Lockdown project. We were playing in Cambridge,
and it's a really small stage, so we set up the gear on stage, and had to play
on the floor. It was the way it was for all the bands.But they wanted to
play on the stage, and they wanted everything moved off the stage, which had
already been set up, sound checked, and because of time restraints and
everything like that, we couldn't move it off. And they got the big hump, and
walked out basically!
