[big screen satellite]

Graham Neal (DJ): Hello Karl & Alfie. Welcome fellas. Nice to see you here i must say.

A & K: Thank you for waiting for us.

GN: Now, am right in thinking; I remember looking back to "the Tube" a while ago and remembering that you were saying you didn't really want a name, you wanted this sort of little caterpillar-type squiggle thing. Is that right?

K: Yeah, thats half right we did have a name Freur at the time but it was something we wanted to pass on by word of mouth. We had an audio biog, that went out with some of the 'A' labels for the radio stations. We thought the word of mouth would spread that this squiggle stood for Freur.

GN: Did it cause any problems at teh time? You mentioned some DJ's picking on it.

A: Computers can't spell squiggle; so computers had a bad time with us.

GN: Now you're fairly quite recently. I must say you're looking very smart tonight, a rather different sort of change of image, how's this come about?

K: Well its not through money.

GN: It looks like it!

K: We spend a lot of time touring Europe, we've had most of our successes, like number 1's in Italy, top ten in Germany, its been great over there for us, so we've been very busy there and then frpom the summer of this year recording the new album and thats complete now.

GN: Is it frustrating that in your home you haven't been as big as you have outside like you say number 1 singles in Italy, is that frustrating for you?

A: Its a little bit because we've had such a good reaction from Europeans and, they're as curious as we are as to why we aren't as successful in sales terms in this country.

GN: I'd find it hard, i really would, that sort of situation. You'd think why it hasn't happened at home.

K: Its hard for Freur fans our mums and dadas, really it's heartbreaking sometimes. You play gigs all over in this country and the attendance at the gigs is really good and, you see the fans faces they can't understand why, they want us to successed so much. We're really happy, i wish you knew how happy we were.


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