Who’s who and what’s the line up?
Luke: I’m Luke I play drums
Rich: I’m rich, I sing
Neil: And I'm Neil, I play guitar
Rich: And we’ve also got Ewan who plays bass, and Dave who plays guitar.

What’s the history of the band?
Rich: It’s quite a funny story, we all probably should have met a long, long time ago, but we only actually met at university and it all came together there. Some of us had come from the same town but we’d never actually met each other. Ewan, Dave and Luke are all from Gatwick, or in that sort of area, so they'd known each other but hadn’t really been in bands. Me and Neil are kinda the outsiders as we only met at uni…

Why are you called Not katies, and why did you change it from Lassie Come Home?
Rich: Well you’re kinda laughing so we don’t really need to explain that….Urm, yea, Lassie come Home suited us as the beginning, sort of a jokey band, we did half a serious set, half a jokey set…and then we made a conscious decision to go for a more serious sound. Er, Not Katies the actual story is really boring, so if you want you can choose a reason. Invent one yourself – it’ll probably be better than the actual reason.
*ok…er…the reason they’re called Not Katies is because Rich is actually a woman called Katie but he prefers to be a tranny, and tells people not to call him Katie, but rather Rich, hence, ‘Not Katies’*

How do you best describe your music?
Rich: Fast, Loud pop!
Neil: With a hard edge
Rich: Yea…

What’s the best gig you’ve played and the best band you’ve played with?
Rich: Er, it’s a toss up between two gigs really, we played with a band called the Movielife, who are like one of our favourite bands, at the Joiners in Southampton, and it was absolutely packed out and it was the most amazing this cos Thurday played as well. So it was just an amazing gig, we were at home and it was packed out, a full house…Er, we also played a sold out show at the garage in London with Good Charlotte, that was really good as well, with Fletcher.

Oh, Olly (Fletcher) asked me to ask you why you keep changing your hairstyle?
Rich: I change my hair cos I’m never happy with it, I’m like a girl *laughter*

Who would you most like to tour with?
Rich: Er, that’s a hard one…
Neil: I spose at the moment, Taking Back Sunday
Rich: We’ve been confirmed to play the down load festival at donnington
Me: I know!
Rich: How does everyone know this?!
Jen: She’s a bit of an insider she knows everything!
Me: There’s a lot of shit being said on the punktastic message board about that
Neil: About us?!
Me: Yea, saying that you only got on the bill cos your on Deck Cheese
Rich: Well maybe, but I don’t care! He’s Dave…
Me: Introduce yourself!
Dave: Hi I’m Dave.
Rich: Abnd what do you do?
 Dave: I play guitar
Neil: Woohoo!
Rich: Like a retard!
Dave: Yea, not very well
Rich: He sings too….
Dave: Yep, a bit of singing…
Rich: He does a bit of smoking as well! Smokes a little cock…
Me: Ok, you can answer this question then…
Dave: excellent

How did you get onto Deck Cheese, Trouble and Deconstruction?
Rich: They all know about Deconstruction already!
Dave: Oh really! Right, we got onto….I’ll hold this *takes Dictaphone from rich* Hello! We got onto Deck Cheese cos basically, when we started we sent a load of demos out to America and stud like that but here, were kinda like…The bands that we like, like Vanilla Pod, we sent one to Deck Cheese, one to Household Name on a whim, and I think there was like one other British label which was like Jamdown, but Deck Cheese was the one we wanted. I was working one Saturday, and I went to the computer rooms on my break at Uni, and they just said ‘oh we’re coming to see you play with Capdown, so they came to that gig and reviewed our demo in their magazine, which was a really really good review and we were like ‘wow! They like us!’. We had a really odd relationship with them, over 6 months, you’d hear from them everyday for a couple of days, then you wouldn’t hear anything for a month. Then they started giving us shows, cos we’d never been out of Southampton and had only played about 10 gigs. They got us gigs with Jesse James, in to London Underworld where we played with Fletcher. And we played at the Garage one time, what was that, February last year?
Rich: January
Dave: January last year…
Rich: January 16^th *laughter*
Dave: And then they said that they would sign us. Trouble… some one else do trouble…You can do it
Rich: We got on trouble cos er, we met Sixth manager, and we played at the barfly once in London and he really liked us, so he told Trouble about us, and the got in contact with Deck Cheese and it kinda went from there. Its really good, but we were really sceptical when we first got it cos like, Trouble Tv is like…Yeaaa, but it’s actually really cool, they were really good to us, they gave us a lot on exposure
Luke: They gave us egg baps with sugar in them
Dave: I don’t know if it was meant to be sugar, someone may have got it confused with salt. It was just like sugar though, like someone had got some egg and dumped a load of sugar on it!
Me: Did it taste nice?
Luke: No!
Dave: It was pretty rough! It was really crunchy as well
Rich: I quite liked it….
Me: Some one told me you had to wear make up…
Rich: Yea, we did have to wear make up…it was ok, it was alright cos we had the prettiest make up lady
Dave: She’d done the make up for Pop Idol, like Gareth Gates and stuff like that….She was hot!
Jen: She made you look like Gareth Gates?
Dave: No, she’d done the make up for Gareth Gates…
Jen: I was gonna say…
Rich: Dave does look a bit like Gareth Gates actually
Dave: I can sing like him as well, my voice it that high!
Rich: So, yea she was hot….ooooh
Dave: Chloe was her name
Rich: Yea, I’ll never forget that
Dave: What was the last one?
Me: How did you get on the bill for deconstruction?
Rich: Well, as everyone says, it’s because we’re on Deck Cheese
Dave: It’s not cos we work hard or anything
Rich: I’d like to say right now, we have actually got this gig cos the guy who puts deconstruction on does actually really like us. It’s this guy called Dave Polluk and he really likes us, and we probably wouldn’t have got it if we didn’t have the Deck Cheese/Big Cheese connections.
Neil: It’s a shame people are bitching about it rather than supporting young British bands, y’know…
Rich: We’re sellouts dude, c’mon you know we’re sellouts
Neil: We actually smoked cock
Dave: They said ‘you wanna do deconstruction’ and we’re like ‘yes please’ and they were like ‘only if you suck our cocks one more time’ and we said ok…
Rich: I’m still feeling the pain of it now…I can’t walk properly
Dave: They said deconstruction, we said all right and they said, ok bend over and we did. Wall of Willy.

What are the best and worst parts of touring?
Rich: The best part is like, getting out and doing something you love, everyday. I’m sure all of us have been thinking about it for years, like it would be the most amazing thing to be in a band, and get out there and tour everyday, and that’s what we’re doing, we’re hopefully playing to people who want to come and see our shows, it’s a real buzz. Kelly Ozbourne came to one of your shows once.
Dave: She’s very very small. I had a bit of a weird situation with her, I went into the dressing, room, it was at the Garage and the Garage has got unbelievable…
Me: we’ve been in it, they’re shit! Tiny!
Dave: Yea…and I went in there and it’s literally just me and her, and I was just like ooooh….and I got out of there quickly cos I got really scared
Jen: Do you think she’s fit
Dave: No, not at all, I think she’s dog ugly.
Rich: I think she’s quite hot, she’s ok..,
Dave: Just don’t put that on your website, cos it’s slightly liable…she’s not my cup of tea, I’m not her biggest fan…
Rich: I think she’s alright, I like the song that goes’ Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah’

What the funniest thing that’s happened on tour?
Rich: Er, Neil holds the records right, before Neil joined the band last November, that’s 5 months ago right, no one had fell over. Since Neil’s joined the band, there’s been 5 falling over incidents; Neil’s been the head of 3 of them. *laughter*
Neil: We played this weird town called Frome…
Me: Inbreds!
Rich: Yea! They’ve all got tails and two faces and stuff…
Neil: But basically, the deal with Frome yea, is the stage is really big and instead of having walls, like you’d think, it had curtains, basically er, I was enjoying my self did a jump, and as I sort of jumped, I looked to the side and realised I was actually jumping off the stage, and sort of hit the curtain, hit the speaker, and landed on my leg, lying half off the stage
Rich: His leg actually looked broken, I was really worried!
Dave: I turned around and saw him on the floor….
Neil: I had a dead arm for 3 weeks….It hurt a lot!
Rich: er, Ewan pissed himself once, Ewans’ got a really weak bladder so he needs to go to the toilet all the time, and a lot of the time we wont stop for him! One time we were playing with this American band called the Lonely Kings, and er, he took a piss in what I think was a coke bottle, was it a coke bottle?
Dave: Yea, it was a coke bottle and basically our van was broken, so we went in our car, driving up to Bradford, and it was like me Luke, the drummer and Ewan in the back, Rich went up with the American band. So we were on the motor way and Ewan was like I really need a piss so we were like well, we’ve only been for literally like half an hour, that’s just fucking stupid, we’re not stopping, there’s no way. And Ewan got a bit funny, cos everytime we passed a services sign he was like *pulls a face like a shocked rabbit…*. But we were going for another 2 hours and he’s got this bottle and kinda puts this towel over him or something, got his little man in the hole, but he really didn’t judge how much he had in there…
Me: It actually fit into the hole?!
Dave: well I couldn’t see…
Rich: Maybe it was like one of those ribena ones
Neil: Yea, those Ribena ones are awesome!
Dave: Anyway, then we hear this ‘oh noooo!’ and literally, I dunno, he musta like, his knob obviously fell out the bottle, onto his jeans without him noticing and he just pissed all over himself. And then, he thought it would be a good idea, cos the smell was horrible, so he got some deodorant and sprayed it all over himself and this deodorant went fluffy white on the piss, and the he got nappy rash! *laughter*
Neil: What was that we were laughing at the other day?
Rich: Oh yea…It’s not a very good story, you wont wanna hear about it!
Jen: Oh go on!
Rich: It’s not that funny, only we’ll find it funny and you’ll go ‘uuuurgh’

Who gets the most groupies?
Rich: Luke, without a shadow of a doubt…He’s always got like girls flocking round him…but he’s got a girlfriend!
Me: anything else about piss?
Neil: I managed to fill a 2 litre bottle of pepsi…
Rich: he did, he actually cut the top off of it, and filled it up…it was quite amazing
Neil: I was literally leaning up against the side of the van for hat must have been about quarter of an hour…it was like mmmm
Rich: Ewan filled up a coffee cup full of piss and threw it at a window, and the splash back went in my face *laughter*
Me: My friend puked in my brothers friends eye. She’s now known as sicky *laughter*
Neil: What about disgusting habits though?
Rich: er, noxious gases…
Neil: Oh yes!
Rich: I think everyone has managed to clear the van at one point or another…
Neil: It’s all the service station food we eat…I thought it would be a good idea, that to instead of just eat crap, eat slim fast and wooohooo, that had repercussions.
Rich: Yea, go with slim fast. With slim fast you get all the nutrients you want, and er its really low in calories
Neil: Me and Rich both lost weight. I lost 6 stone, you lost….
Rich: I only lost about a stone and a half, two stone, but y’know…He was like, you were like 16 stone weren’t you?
Neil: Yea 16 stone..
Rich: I had boobs. It took you about 6 months to loose that?
Me: It took me three days to loose half a stone…
Neil: 3 days?!?!
Rich: What?
Jen: It’s because she was pining for her lost love…
Dave: I had food poisoning and I lost 8 pounds…
Rich: Ewan did that! When we’d just started the band, he split up with his ex girl friend, and he got so skinny.

What are your porn star names?
Neil: Heffa Mcdoogal
Rich: aww, mine’s really bad
Daves: What’s that?
Rich: Your first pet, and your mothers’ maiden name
Dave: I can’t remember that!…..It was a hamster called Roxy!
Rich: And what’s your mothers’ maiden name?
Dave: Right..
Rich: Roxy Right!
Me: When I interviewed Bowling For Soup, they did it by the street they grew up on and their middle name I think….
Neil: That’s Queen David!
Rich: Mine’s Jerry James! I got a good one! Alright!
Dave: Mine’s Colin Roland…
Rich: Daves’ middle name is Roland!

Who are you influenced by?
Rich: As a whole, we’re definitely influenced by ‘the movielife’. Loads and loads of other stuff…Like Ewans a Paul Simon fan. He really takes his country and stuff really, John Denver and stuff really seriously (to Neil) get your crotch outta my face!!!! *Laughter*  Neil likes crazy shit man!
Neil: I like early nineties New York hardcore
Rich: I like early nineties Eurodance…What do you like Dave?
Dave: I like….I like college rock….
Rich: I like Nada surf…
Neil: I like erm….The Beatles – a lot.

Where do you see yourselves in 5 years time?
Rich: Probably not in a band!
Me: What about the concrete jungle stage next year?
Rich: Yea, that sounds good to us! That’ll be ace to play at reading...
Dave: The first band I ever saw was Iron Maiden, when I was about 11. So now, it’s my dad’s birthday tomorrow, so I wrote him a birthday card saying ‘oh by the way dad you might wanna go to Donnington this year cos Donnington are headlining, and I’m playing too’ it’s gonna make his day.

What’s the worst venue you’ve ever played?
Rich: Er, the worst venue is probably at Portsmouth University, it was terrible…We were awful, it was probably only our 5^th gig, the sound was terrible, and it was just the most demoralizing experience of our entire life.

You got any other tales to tell on other bands?
Rich: Yea, phineus gage, they say mmm bums, stroke cats, and shed tears…Every band we’ve ever played with have all been really good
Dave: Actually we played a gig with one band who shall remain nameless, and their absolute fuck wits, and used the stage as a place to diss other bands.
Rich: they don’t like us either, apparently we’re commercially driven…right. We hope we have a good show tonight. It looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Neil: Are you going to ……for us?
Rich: Yea, you gonna be at the front though!
Me: I’ll swallow…
Rich: She’s gonna swallow! Hahahah
Me: I meant my tongue!
Neil: My girlfriend got her tongue pierced, this is a horror story…you know the mouth wash stuff, well she swallowed some and she was ill for3 days, vomiting…
Me: I got a tattoo, and…
Rich: What you get:? Cool…
Me: when my parents found out they weren’t too pleased, so I haven’t told them about this yet. I’ve been trying to speak really intellectually around them
Rich: Shit!
Neil: We were talking about getting tattoos to look more rock weren’t we…
Rich: Yea, Dave’s got some. Dave’s got 2 tattoos
Dave: There right up there I can’t show it…
Me: What about piercing?
Rich: Er, yea…Daves got one, I’ve got one…
Dave: Mine’s actually giving me some grief, look little triangle of spots. I must be dirty or something
Rich: Yea, you’re dirty! Ewan doesn’t have any piercing….Luke has a lip piercing…Hes got a
Neil: The join between your penis and your testicles…
Rich: Yea, what’s it called?
Me: Frenum….
Rich: Yea that’s it! Ewan actually has hit but pierced. You know the actually…just on the rim. He said that when he’s having sex with his girl friend that she goes like that *indicates poking up anus* and that its really nice.
Neil: I know somebody who did that, and it really hurt *laughter*
Rich: That was the story you told us the other day wasn’t it…
Neil: Rimming…mmmm

Nicest bands you’ve toured with?
Rich: 4 ft fingers
Me: We love those guys! Dave and Rob are quality…
Rich: He’s the king, he’s brilliant…
Dave: They’re fucking awesome!
Rich: 4 ft fingers, phinius gage, er…
Dave: Our managers pretty nice
Rich: Yea, Eugene, our manager he’s the king. They look after us.,..Miles as at the record label, they’re really good, they sort us out all the time… everyone really looks out for each other generally in this scene, like, everyones really nice to each other.

What’s it like seeing yourself on tv?
Rich: Odd, but cool at the same time. I always wanted to be on the tv.
Dave: It’s weird seeing yourself once, but its more weird the more times you see it cos it means more people are voting for it, you know what I mean? Rich: We’re doing a new video, soon, very soon, with Neil as the main character, it’s basically about how he joins the band, but it’s a lot bigger and better…It’s in the style of groundhog day too!
Neil: Bill Murrays’ actually my hero as well, so that’s good for me! Hero’s – who are your hero’s?
Rich: My hero? Dunno really, probably David Hasselhoff…
Neil: He’s a role model for us all
Rich: Yea, definitely, he’s a bit hit in Germany
Neil: Which is where we wanna be…

What do you think of Busted?
Rich: Wicked, I think they’re absolutely amazing, I love the song that goes…ermm
Neil, Rich & dave: And your great great great granddaughter, she’s pretty fine!
Rich: Yea, that’s brilliant…
Neil: Some really, really funny people say we’re like Busted. Ha Ha Ha….
Rich: And I like the bit in the first song they did…
Me: What I Go To School For…
Rich: Yeh, when the guy falls out the tree, that’s hilarious! That’s absolutely brilliant!
Neil: Not as hilarious as the woman they go to school for is big fat and ugly…
Rich: It should be on their website ‘That’s what I stay at home for’  
Me: Reckon I could steal some plecs?
Neil: sure, I have loads of plecs! For apparently being a commercial, financially driven band, we must be the crappest at it ever!

 *tape cuts out* Damn. The tape ran out! That must be the longest interview. It went on for a wile after too! Haha!
Thanks a bunch guys! Mwah….