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Interviewee:     B’Hellmouth - Send More Paramedics
Interviewer/s:   Kate James & Matt James
Date:              5 November 2005
Venue:            Rock City, Nottingham
Upload How long have you been together and how did you start the band?
SMP IT SEEMS LIKE FOREVER...SEND MORE PARAMEDICS SPRANG FULLY FORMED FROM THE GRAVE AT HALLOWE'EN 2001. NO MEMORY OF OUR FORMER MORTAL LIVES REMAINS.
Upload Which other bands do you admire and why?
SMP MANY, MANY BANDS. A SHORT LIST...

SLAYER - ORIGINAL GODS OF THRASH, DEFINING A SICK ULTRA-FAST'N'HEAVY TYPE OF METAL WHICH SO MANY BANDS INCLUDING OURSELVES HAVE TRIED TO APE OVER THE YEARS...
MINOR THREAT - THEY PRACTICALLY INVENTED HARDCORE AND COMBINED A DIY APPROACH WITH SHEER FREE-THINKING PUNK ROCK ATTITUDE - INSPIRING STUFF...
ANTHRAX - THEIR STOMPING THRASH HAS BEEN A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON PARTS OF OUR SOUND...
PROPAGANDHI - GENIUS CANADIAN PUNK-ROCK THRASHERS, COMBINING HUMOUR WITH PASSIONATE POLITICAL COMMITMENT...THE BAND I'D BE IN IF I HAD A SOUL...
Upload You went down a storm at Download in June, How was the gig for you and do you want to play there again next year?
SMP AWESOME. YES PLEASE MR/MS DOWNLOAD-BOOKING PEOPLE! IT WAS GREAT TO PLAY TO SUCH A BIG (AND ENTHUSIASTIC) CROWD. WE LOVED IT! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CHECKED OUT OUR SET.
Upload What do you want for Christmas?
SMP (SINGS) 'ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOUR TWO FRONT(AL) LOBES...'
Upload Have you always been into dressing up?
SMP CAN'T REMEMBER (SEE ABOVE). BUT I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED...
Upload What is your favourite gig that you have played?
SMP ANY ONE OF OUR HALLOWE'EN HOMETOWN GIGS IN LEEDS - AN OPPORTUNITY TO ROCK OUT WITH FRIENDS AND PARTY LIKE WE'RE FUCKIN' DEAD!
Upload If you could swap places with someone for a day, who would it be and why?
SMP THE NIGHT-JANITOR IN A RESEARCH HOSPITAL NEUROLOGY DEPARTMENT...WHAT A DREAM
JOB....MMMMMMMMMMBBBBRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Upload What is the maddest thing you have ever done?
SMP ALL OUR ACTIVITIES ARE MORE OR LESS WHAT YOU MORTALS WOULD THINK OF AS PSYCHOTIC, I GUESS...
Upload  What other countries would you like to tour in?
SMP ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE - IN REALISTIC TERMS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO GET OVER TO AMERICA NEXT YEAR, AND GONG BACK TO EUROPE AT SOME POINT...
Upload What is your favourite horror movie?
SMP IT HAS TO BE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD...COMBINING ZOMBIES, THE 80S, AND PUNK ROCK IN ONE PACKAGE, HOW CAN YOU BEAT IT?