Q: First of all let's start with your tour of America. You said earlier that making America notice is always a challenge. How is it going? Are they beginning to take notice?

A: Things are going quite well for us here considering our situation as a brand new band to mostly everyone. We’re on the radio here and there. We’re playing to at least a few hundred people at the shows we’ve done. If anyone does make the effort to come see us they’ve probably only heard the song a few times on the radio and that’s it. So I’m impressed with their endeavour really.

Q: Which gig, over the past three months, would you consider the most memorable and why? Likewise which would you say was the band's best overall performance?

A: The Coachella show in Palm Springs about 3 weeks ago was quite memorable. It was a bloody lovely day followed by a very fraught evening concert. I thought Craig might have exploded during the first song. I forgot to sing in some parts because I was just looking at him turning a redder shade of red. We played pretty well in Oxford the last time we were in England.

Q: Have you met any of your music heroes on your travels? If so, who made the biggest impression?

A: Mickey Quinn from the Grass impressed me with his easygoing normality. In contrast his bass-playing is just liquid flamboyance.

Q: The MP3 phenomenon has caused serious problems for Oasis and Eminem in recent weeks. Your album was free for download months before the planned release. How do you feel about this. How damaging is it?

A: What can you do? I’m fairly confident that people still want the artwork that comes with the CD. I also think that the fact that the songs are out there is beneficial for the live shows where otherwise we’d be playing to a room full of people who’d only read about us in the NME.

Q: Which Vines track would you consider to be your favourite and why?

A: I like Homesick. Craig likes Mary Jane. I think Homesick sounds classic in a Glen Campbell type way.

Q: What are the benefits of being in a Rock and Roll band?

A: You get free CD’s, you can see other bands from side of stage at festivals and you can see them for free in clubs when you get the record company to pull strings, you don’t have to get up early and you can involve your higher self in an endeavour which means you can leave the grim asphalt behind in the so called “real” world.

Q: The delivery and 'style' on the new album is very different to the A# sessions you did with Glenn Santry (which was very reminiscent of The Stone Roses, especially on the track 'Rainfall'). It was more of an 'English' sound, if there is such a thing. Was there a conscious decision to move away from that?

A: I think Winning Days and Rainfall sound English – production aside. Perhaps Rob Schnapf as an American wasn’t attracted to recording them. We had about 18 or 19 songs under consideration in pre-production stage and some got left unrecorded.

Q: Who would you consider to be the most 'important' musical act of the the nineties?

A: Hootie and the Blowfish. Craig the poor misguided fool thinks it’s Nirvana.

Q: Did you get to meet the Gallaghers during your Top of The Pop performance?

A: I met Liam later at Coachella. Someone introduced me. He said “ ‘eard your bands cool man”. Then he started raving about fuck knows what.

Q: You recently said that you can't watch decent cricket in England wrongly. Are you often wrong?

A: I’m sorry, someone must have put something in my drink.

Q: Someone once said that if you placed an infinite amount of monkeys in a small room with a keyboard eventually they would compose the theme to Titanic by Celine Dion. Should these monkeys be destroyed?

A: These so-called monkeys should be forced to hunt down Celine Dion in a future where simians are our overlords.

Q: We hear Craig had a panic attack before the Coachella gig. It must have been awful, is he fine now? What caused it?

A: I think it was worse for the NME journalist.

Q: I understand you left University to tour with the Vines. Were you ever under any pressure to get a 'proper job' before it become possible that the band might actually make it big?

A: I had a proper job for a year. I wish I’d gone to art school like the Beatles or The Clash so I was unqualified for anything.

Q: Who is the most fascinating person you have ever met?

A: Our manager Andy Kelly. Never lost for a joke.

Q: If you could have an all time 'fantasy' band who would be in it? (and you can't say Craig, Patrick and Hamish..that's cheating)

A: Sing – John Lennon, Keys – Eno, Guitar – John Squire, Bass – Geezer, Drums – Dave Grohl

Q: Which band or musician has had the most influence on you personally?

A: Beatles and in particular Paul.

Q: Can you name the greatest band, artist, album and song of all time?

A: Beatles, Hendrix, first Roses record, Plastic Man by the Kinks.

Q: Is being compared to Nirvana a good thing or one big pain in the arse?

A: It could be worse.

Q: Who is the second greatest band in the World at the moment?

A: N.E.R.D.

Q: Has anybody we may have heard of worked with you on the new album and have any others offered their services for the next album?

A: It’s only been us so far working on the record.

Q: Where do you see the Vines in ten years time?

A: Turning tricks in bus shelters for pocket change.

Q: Describe the Vines using one word.

A: Mugatu.