the countryside and recorded up here? TF: Josh was really happy when we recorded the guitars because it just worked really, really well. I like when you capture a moment and get it to record. JH: It's very laid back. That was after one of your big dinners, then? Too much wine with you dinner and you just started playing it? JH: Pretty much. (laughs) 'Monica Gems' A great choice to follow 'Moving Further Away', this is perhaps the most straightforward, glammy track on the album -- Faris doing a "wah ha hawoooo" Brett Anderson turn over raggedy backing vocals from his bandmates "don't you know you'll be wasting your time" that sound like the sort of thing the dirty dogs of Grinderman come up with. One wonders if the track is named for the wholesale jewellers on Berwick Street? JH: With the guitars on 'Monica Gems' I had this really great idea of how I wanted them to sound and it wasn't really working and there wasn't enough noise or something, so I just said 'Fuck it' and plugged it in back to front. And all of a sudden it just went rrrrroaaaaar! And that was through Sexy over there. Sexy? JH: That's my pet name for my love machine. TF: Sexy is a home built modular guitar amp and synth. [see picture above] You built all that? How'd you start putting that together? JH: My dad's a sheet metal worker, so I had him make the panels for