This week I sent an e-mail to the band with 10 questions attached to it. The guys were very kind and have responded, answering my questions as shown below. The guys responded to it fairly quickly so I'd just like to say a big thank you to them all for being such good sports! I am however was baffled at their grammar, but Matt explained what happened and I fixed it all.

Hey Andrew, cheers for sending your questions... and now here's the answers...

1. How do you expect the crowds to react to The Blueprint, compared to your other/previous bands?

The crowd response so far has been good. Obviously not as many people know us as know our other bands, and we're playing smaller gigs, so it's hard to compare, but there does seem to be a lot of energy at our shows.

2. How did the recording of the record compare to any of your previous records?

 The recording was very hectic, we did the whole record in 5 days, so there were a lot of late nights, but the results are pretty good.

3. Who/What would you say were the main influences in the writing of this record?

Way to many to name here, but Refused, Helmet, Quicksand and Fugazi would definitely be in there.

4. For Karl and Matt. What are you doing apart from The Blueprint?

Our day jobs

5. For Chris, Will and Mark. Is it hard to balance The Blueprint between Pitchshifter/Consumed?

Not really. It seemed like it might be at first, but as soon as we learn to stay on top of things and be sure to communicate with each other, it stopped being a problem.

6. What do your other/previous band mates think of the record?

Everyone seems to like it. Jim and Jason from Pitchshifter are really into it.

7. Your are supposedly working on new material for your forth coming tour, will this material become part of zero*zero*two?

We have four new songs that are almost finished and will more than likely turn up on the next record. We don't know if will be called "zero*zero*two" yet, but it's a possibility.

8. Are there any plans for after the tour?

We're doing live show up until Christmas, then we're going back in the studio in January.

9. What are your personal views on the current trend of Garage Rock'N'Roll bands?

Garage punk is generally cool, although like any scene there's some good and bad bands, but garage has always been pretty cool and will remain to be after the media attention has died away. There's definitely a garage influence in some of our stuff.

10. Do you recommend any good new bands, apart from yourselves?

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