Interviews
GRAND THEFT AUDIO

VOX: So, what the fuck are we doing here?

Chris McCormack: Making a porno, a flash porno!

VOX: So what’s this all about?

CM: Our first single called "Stoopid Ass".

VOX: "Stoopid Ass"?

CM: "Stoopid Ass".

VOX: Well, what’s the song about?

Jay Butler: What do you think? It’s about us really, I suppose…

CM: I dunno…hmm, stupid asses…

VOX: How did you get involved with the sound track to "Dude, Where's My Car?"

CM: I dunno. I guess they shopped our song around to see what came back. We were lucky really - we had done video games. There was a couple things but I can’t remember at the moment.

JB: We’re work whores. We’ll do anything for money, just anything.

CM: If there’s money we say yes. If there’s no money - you’re very lucky you got an interview. You haven’t given us any money.

JB: Don’t we get paid for this? Are we getting anything for this?

VOX: 20 quid.

CM: We were told we weren’t getting anything. Lots of money, 20 quid.

JB: 20 quid!

VOX: How did you all come together?

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CM: Well, you interviewed me before for the band Three Colours Red, and the drummer was in a band called The Wildhearts, Rich was in The Wildhearts , Jay was in a band called Real TV. And we all toured together three years ago. Jay was me mate for years. So was Rich…

JB: It was like lost people in a bar every night, you know what I mean…

CM: We always got drunk and said one day, "I’ll be in a band with you." And then we got drunk again and we decided to do it.

JB: We stopped drinking however…

CM: We all came together with aid of alcohol I suppose. And when we realized what a bad idea that was.

VOX: Where did you all grow up?

JB: I grew up in London, south England, so did Ralph, Rich grew up in Birmingham and he [Chris] hasn’t grown up yet.

CM: I was brought up in New Castle, in the north of England, beside Scotland, but we all lived in London...I’ve lived there for the past six years.

JB: It is the battle of the accents in this band!

CM: Yea, yea.

JB: You can’t understand a word of what anyone is saying, "bluerreere!"

CM: But yea, we have all lived together, I used to live with Rich. He [Jay] would come and drink all of our drinks cause he had no money and just scrounge.

JB: Nothing has changed.

CM: Yea, nothing has changed.

gtaseven.gif (11042 bytes)JB: We used to be called The Infidels when I first joined, then it was like, sitting in a pub, we thought the name was real rubbish. The name didn’t say anything about us. Then we found out it was on an American record label and we couldn’t use it anyways. Then we sat around and knocked around ideas we thought about "Massive Wankers" but we didn’t think it would fit on a record…

VOX: Which way is rock music heading?

JB: East.

CM: We don’t really give a shit what anyone else is doing.

JB: It’s stopped being about set styles. All the bands we like, we have all this metal stuff, punk stuff, then we have, I’m a massive sort of rap fan - the two get melded together.

CM: We are going for this really modern thing, trying to bring it forward a little bit what we’re doing. We have a wide variety. I bring in the guitar cause that’sgtasix.gif (7103 bytes) all I know. Ralph brings the sampling, the programming side; he’s the producer. It's kind of a blend of everywhere we come from.

VOX: What's your creative process like?

CM: It works every way. Everyone is a songwriter in this band. I came in the band quite late cause of the 3 Colours Red thing. So a lot of the songs were done before I came into it...It could be a riff. Or it could be "Hey, he has something that we can rip off!" That’s where the name comes in: Grand Theft Audio, it’s quite fitting.

VOX: What's the concept for the video that you're shooting today?

JB: We get to look at loads of great looking women all day, and in between that we’ve got to move around a bit.

CM: The idea for the video is completely changed.

JB: How in the fuck do you know what the idea is?

CM: I do know. The 2 actors that were in the film ["Dude, Where's My Car"] we’re going to be here waking up the morning after, which is part of the film. But at the last minute, we got a phone call that they weren’t going to be in it. So…

JB: Pretty much a performance…

CM: A live gig. It’s was supposed to be a real story-line, but we’ve had to rethink it. So now it's going to be a standard video. It should still be good, I know it will be.

VOX: Will this song be released as a single?

CM: Yea, it was the third most added song in the alternative lists. It’s really good. I don’t really understand America, but they say it’s good so I believe them.

VOX: What are your tour plans?

JB: We’re off to Germany next.

CM: We’re coming back to do the [movie] premier in early December and I think a gig in LA.

JB: We’ll be back for a proper American tour in the New Year.

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