The Momemtum EP, what were the ideas behind it?
If we’re honest the title was a little ironic and born out of frustration of the sheer time it was taking to get tracks released. We also wanted to make a commitment to ourselves and fans that the intention moving forward is to create much more momentum with music coming out and shows, as we have been doing lately.
Do you find your fan base to be more spread across the globe now than before? If so, do you believe that is due to the accessibility of social media?
It certainly is more widespread, as are most things these days, which is such a refreshing feeling as we always felt back in 2000 that we weren’t getting the chance to push the tracks overseas as much as we would have liked. Social media is at times a blessing and a curse, but it is brilliant that you can connect music with people all around the globe instantly.
Let’s rewind, how do you feel now looking back on your past stardom? Would you have done anything differently? And, are there any particular favourite moments from back then?
Well looking back we could say that we made a lot of bad moves but, I think we’d both say that, ultimately some of the bad moves lead to good things so it’s hard to say that we would have changed anything. We survived it most importantly and still love doing what we do and there were so many incredible moments like playing to enormous crowds in Glastonbury, performing on the now defunct Top of the Pops was pretty cool, not to mention Jools Holland. The only regret would be not getting a Blue Peter badge!
A few thoughts from you on the “Artful Dodger” identity and how you guys feel about its usage now?
It’s frustrating as f*** but we are concentrating on staying positive and focusing on our new music and shows, and hoping that eventually it will become obvious what happened! It’s definitely more than a bit weird to think a couple of random guys are happy to stand up in front of people and say they are us and that they made the music etc, pointless getting stressed about it and the more people who find out the truth the better.
The reunion, simply how did it occur? What made you decide to get back together and make music again?
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