mix too I think. On a personal note I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan and regardless of what the music I'm making sounds like, I always see them as a guiding light. In winner of the best bio for 2012 written as a letter from 'Phil Collins', it seems fair that you like to have some fun in what you're doing, is it fair to say that is the Ashes philosophy as a band? Dude, that letter was legit. Phil Collins fucking loves us! He was over here just the other day, we started jamming on 'Against All Odds', it was awesome! ... Okay fine Phil Collins has no idea who we are. Fun is central to everything we're doing as a band. I don't want to make miserable music, give a sad performance and then cry myself to sleep. I want to jump around the stage, put a smile on people's faces, and collapse exhausted in the back of the tour van after an awesome night playing music with my best mates. If we didn't make things fun, I don't think any of us would be interested in keeping this going. At only two years as a band, to me it seemed like you'd been doing it for much longer as you all seemed comfortable, what is it about the band that gels so well? As mentioned earlier, some of us have been playing together longer than that. Smithers and I in particular have been making music together for