OK, last political question:
What do you think of Jack Straw's curfew for children?

John: That's just so ridiculous, innit - what's he frightened of, getting mugged by five year olds? (Laughs). "I think it's the single parents that cause the problem, don't they". Right -let's pick on the weakest people in society and blame them. You don't see fuckin' children on the streets, it's too scary for them to be on the streets, 'cos of all the fuckin' child molesters - they should put a curfew on the adults. (Laughs).
Jay: Where I live, you see loads of kids running round the streets, it's like Victorian England round a lot of places - all these little urchins crawling round in the gutters.
Rob: I think children should be put on an island until they're sixteen and then allowed back on to the mainland. (Big laughs).
Jay: An' Rob has to be the ruler of that island, just Rob and every child - King Rob and his minions of under sixteen year-olds! (Cracking up totally). (Curfew)'s utterly unpoliceable, it's a stupid, ridiculous waste of time and money.
John: It was so funny when (Jack Straw)'s son got caught on that kind of set up dope thing. That was so excellent wasn't it. As soon as anybody starts, like the Tory party with their family values thing, within two days they've got a cock-up.

J: It was a bit of poetic justice that.

John: Oh, totally, yeah. Can you imagine what he said when he found out. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for that one!
Where've these people been for the last thirty years? Things have changed, y'know. What's the problem with kids running around on the streets anyway?
Rob: They're living in the past... Where're kids gonna go anyway? What're they gonna do, stay in with their parents all day?

J: You notice they always test it out in Scotland as well.

John: Oh, yeah. 'Cos they don't vote for them anyway... The Labour Party do it now 'cos they're gonna vote SNP in Scotland now, so they just carry on doing these things.

J: Next question: What's your maddest gig ever been?

Rob: I think we're about to play it.
Jay: Well, Macedonia  was pretty crazy wasn't it, 'cos it'd never really happened there before. Quite early in the band's career we went to Macedonia and they'd only ever had one gig on before, like Lybark (???) in a pretty small club. An' next thing some people there said: "We're a country now, let's put on this big festival". So rather than kinda dip their toes in the water and do some small gigs, they put on this massive festival: The Prodigy, us, Dog Eat Dog, Renegade Soundwave and a bunch of East European bands.

J: Cool!

John: The bloke just had a nervous breakdown in the end, it was just mental, havin' to put it on. And he couldn't pay anyone in Macedonian money, he had to go and pay them in German marks.

J: Right - 'cos Macedonian money's not worth owt?

Jay: It's not worth anything outside of Macedonia.
John: Most of the people there only take dollars as currency. It's like that all through Eastern Europe now.


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