| Who the hell are you? | I am
Fuzz 'Bomb' Bomb.
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| What's your role in the band? | I
write some of the songs, sing most of them, and try to
appear talented whilst leaning on everyone else.
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| "But what does that mean!" | "that
boy needs therapy!" Great tune. I guess it means
that everyone else makes a great noise and I stumble all
over it in a vain attempt to appear deep and attractive.
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| Cliche alert: Who/what are your influences? | If I
were being REALLY truthful with my influences, inasmuch
as which ones I can actually trace as opposed to just 'my
favourite bands' then... 1.) David Bowie. 2.) The Smiths 3.) The Wedding Present/Cinerama 4.) Belle and Sebastian. 5.) Hefner. 6.) Nirvana. 7.) The Drifters. 8.) any one of 100's of mid-sixties amateur usa garage punk bands. 9.) Holland/Dozier/Holland 10.) Syd Barrett.
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| What exactly are you trying to do with this here band? | Good question. I started off
writing songs in the vain hope that I could transform
from the lanky, ugly, unpopular kid I was into someone
people respected. When I realised that I didn't want the
respect of those people anyway I kept on writing as I
felt I was proving something to myself by doing so.
Eventually it just turned into a kind of therapy, as I
would vent all my anger/frustration/bitterness in song
form. But as I get older I find I don't have so much of
that anymore, so now I like to write for art's sake, just
to create some perfect 'pop' moments.
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| And we'd especially love to know what you want to destroy. If anything | Destroy?
What really irks me is prejudice against genre in music.
Not only pop or dance fans dismissing 'alternative' music,
but 'alternative' fans railing against pop music, or hip-hop
or whatever. I'm so passionate about music that I can't
just love one or two genres. In fact, i can't think of
one genre that doesn't include something I like. For
example, the compilation tape I have on my walkman right
now contains Japanese rock, whistling records from the
thirties, blues, Spanish hip-hop, indie, drum 'n' bass
and jazz guitar instrumentals. All music can be good.
Down with this bloody imperialist attitude.
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| Would you rather be a huge charts-shagging monster band or would you be content as a small cult band, bearing in mind that either way the NME will hate you? | I
don't see why the NME would hate us, we certainly don't
hate them. I also don't believe in this 'they-build-you-up-just-to-knock-you-down'
thing, I think that a lot of bands tend to be very
exciting at the start, and then tail off gradually. See
the Stereophonics for example, first few singles were
really powerful, soulful rock music, then they just got
more and more turgid, climaxing with a single moaning
about how journalists don't 'tell it like it really is'.
I'm sorry, mr Jones, 'mr writer' loves music just as much
(if not more) than you. Which is why he tells it like it
really is. Anyway, to answer the actual question, I'd rather have a couple of really big number one singles, then sign a lucrative record deal, and release a series of critically regarded cult albums for the rest of my life. Rather like XTC did.
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| What's yer motto? | Wow.
I've just realised I don't have a motto. I don't have a
tattoo either. Maybe the two are related!
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| Go on, sell yourself: | OK...
Buckfast are a fun, slightly pretentious genre-hopping
band of misfits. We want the audience to have a good time,
but we will never sell short our vision for success. And
I think that's quite a rare thing.
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| What IS your favourite kind of tree? | Well,
aside from the OBVIOUS answer, i attribute my good looks
and talent to the turpentine in Pines.
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