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From: Lara Mendes
Q.Hello, I´m a new fan of your band. I say new, because find you in www.cotonete.com by chance. I saw the TYGERMILK... where the idea came from? Thank for your answer. See you soon, Croft

A. my friend in san francisco used to bring me 'tiger's milk' bars when i was low in energy and poor. a few years later, back in glasgow, joanne had the pet tiger and we just thought it would be fun to take the picture to match the name!

Stuart - 11/06/10

From:
Q.I'm sorry

A. me too!

Stevie - 05/02/10

From: John B
Q.Is there a general consensus amongst the group on the idea of Scottish independence? Yay or nay?

A. Nay.  There's not a general consensus on anything in the group except maybe the Velvet Underground.

Stevie - 22/06/09

From: Tim the Gallic Hibernian
Q.Is anyone in the band influenced by any anarchist thinkers or ideas ? (And I mean anarchism as the political ideology, not the media-created stereotype of thugs throwing stones.) Ever read anything from the (pacifist) anarchists, like Tolstoy, Doris Day or Jacques Ellul?

A. Nah, I saw a poster once advertising an anarchist meeting and I thought: wow the anarchists are having a meeting!  Should have went, might have learned something.  I love Doris Day though, beautiful singer...'The very thought of you' 'autumn leaves' they're revolutionary songs, could turn your world around in a second.

Stevie - 18/02/09

From: nick cassettes
Q.hello all. i read, with zest and zing, nick kent's 'the dark stuff' this damp squid summer- it's a heady race through mostly archived articles about the un/usual suspects. it has to be said it's a great book... however, the very last bloody SENTENCE (yes, sentence) turns the whole thing on its head with NK dissing B&S: it really left me reeling... what's his problem then? (i know i should probably be addressing this to him - but, i'm not! silly sod! much love, keep rockin! nick cassettes x

A. Yeah Bob showed me that.  Yeah, it's funny.  The Dark Stuff has always been my favourite Rock'n'Roll book.  I actually wrote a piece on it for a magazine but I'm not sure it was published. 
It's all perception I guess.  I disagree with him....  he called us moderate muso's or something.  The last thing the group has ever been is moderate. Love/hate seemed to our general state of acceptance or non acceptance...
People don't know, when we started we were subversive, we sent wholesale aspects of the London establishment packing and did things our own way and we were successful too. 
A large part of the power of Kent's writing comes through him being in the thick of the action even to the point of having relationships with some of his subjects.  To my knowledge he's never met any of us so it seemed a bit inappropriate and a bit of a cheap shot but then again, I'm hardly objective. 
In the final analysis, it's his book and so he can write what he wants, it's cool. 
He's a brilliant writer and I'd recommend the book to anyone, it's fantastic, especially the chapter on the Stones.

Stevie - 12/08/08

From: joe
Q.Are you worried, frightened or proud that there are pictures of you all on 'Redwatch'? I am on there and I am quite chuffed!

A. Don't feel anything really, got other things to spend my time caring about.

Stevie - 09/08/08

From: Renwick
Q.Hello Stevie. You must excuse the blantant nature of this question, but being tactful was difficult...Why are you Catholic?

A. I'm not, used to be though, got a problem with that?

Stevie - 25/07/08

From: nicole
Q.Hello there, Stevie. You seem to be a very positive person, based on the reply you gave to my "skinny brown-headed" boyfriend named Cody. My question is, how do you typically handle situations that you can't make better? For example, you upset a person and suddenly everything you loved about life is taken away from you and all that can be done about it is to wait and see what happens.

A. Sometimes doing nothing is the best thing you can possibly do.  Just stop.  Perception wise, you sound in a vulnerable state which means maybe you're reading the situation wrong anyway. 
Ever hear that expression about the answer lying in the question? 
I can't quite remember how it goes but the fact that you've posted a question here shows that you care about what's happening. 
So along with that if you continue to be honest and pure of heart, I'm sure things will get better.

Stevie - 25/07/08

From: Cody
Q.Hello, Stevie. I've discussed with several people their fears about death, and it seems that most people tend to have a fear of the world forgetting them as they lived. To me, this seems silly. For one, i don't know if there's anyone who's lives are completely forgotten following their death. Of course, eventually you will fade, as all things do, but most people, immediately following their death, are not forgotten. Even if they are not well known by the person discovering their death, the fact that they died will still, most likely, whether subsconsiously or otherwise cause that person to at least question their own thoughts about death and life and afterlife and things such as that. That is the part that i think would be truly terrible to die without. It would be awful to me to die and have people think of me as a skinny brown-headed boy who made mediocre grades and climber, which is apparently the sort of thing most people want remembered. All I am afraid of is that when people find that I've died, no one gives it a second thought. A person can have remembered everything I've said and worn and written my entire life, but if my death doesn't cause them to question their lives, that would be awful. That is what I fear. What are your thoughts on the matter?

A. Ehh..sorry, right off, gonna have to quote the bard.....
"He not busy being born is busy dying"
I don't think death is what counts but how you live that really matters and there's no reason why you can't be around to enjoy life's interactions and all that you can bring to others and all that others can bring to you.  When your gone your gone, let's face it, it won't matter to you any more when the lights go out.
Yeah, once your dead you can live on by your example in a sense, the baton is passed and that is important, don't get me wrong, but enough of this talk of the fear of death, it's not important.  Fear of death is fear of living and can be addressed right now, that's the beauty of it, it's good to be alive, great in fact.  These are my thoughts.

Stevie - 19/06/08

From: Danielle
Q.What do you believe in? I believe in you.

A. Thanks Danielle.  I believe in the power of a kind word.

Stevie - 15/05/08

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