How would 'post-Madonna’ period in pop music look like?

In the context that you’re now referring to Madonna the artist, we can answer by saying pop music would be the very same it is today with or without Madonna. We love her music for what it is, don’t get us wrong, but if it wasn’t Madonna, it would just someone else in her place. She’s not as influential as people make out, or indeed as influential as the likes of Elvis, The Beatles or David Bowie. Don’t think that we’re ‘dissing’ Madonna, because we’re not at all – we buy her CDs! Her songs are very well written pop songs and she works with amazing producers and collaborates with the very best there is. We’re sure she’d be the first to admit that she’s been lucky in the past and that luck was to work with the top producers, stylists, PR companies and agents. She’s made a little go a very long way …

Who are your favourite male and female characters from sci-fi films/books? 

We love the Silver Surfer, The Fantastic Four (Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm) and all Jules Verne, Stan Lee and H.G. Wells sci-fi writings and characters for obvious reasons (they’re so brilliant). Doctor Who is a very strong character and we’re thrilled that there’s a brand news series/Doctor currently in pre-production at the BBC.

Since your launch in 1999, you’ve created over 60 songs. Where does that immense inspiration come from?

We love making music and with that kind of output (60 plus tracks), it’s certainly proof that we really do LOVE making electro-pop music!”Urbanism” is slated for a November release, although it has been completed since May and we’re currently busy writing and recording new songs and over seeing remixes for ‘Re:Model’, as we write this.
We’ve recently set up our own studio called Electric Eye and can now fully concentrate on producing all our music ourselves, which wasn’t the case before. This has lead to additional remix work that we’re completing for other bands such as Tristraum, Macondo and Eight To Infinity as well as some film compositions too.

Ninthwave Records is really doing excellent job in promoting ESH in the USA  How did that cooperation come about?

Ninthwave have been great for us. They’ve been very committed and supportive with our music and releases and we hope the relationship can continue in this way for future ESH releases. Dave Richards received a copy of the EU version of ‘Pop Robot’ from Todd Durrant of A Different Drum and e-mailed us out of the blue with an offer to licence it for the North American market place.

Any prospects in finding a suitable European label to support you?

Which PS2 game is your favourite?  <smile>

We like Knockout Kings the best! Since composing music for a TV/Cinema advert for PS2 in 2001, we’ve had a bigger interest in it as a relaxation toy then before 2001.
But it can be very tiring becoming Heavyweight Champion of the World 8 times in a row, having to beat Ali, Frazier, Liston, Holmes and Lennox Lewis along the way, so it’s not something we can afford to do continually for the sake of our long term health. <smile>

Where would you like to tour first?

The UK or Germany would be excellent and would really help raise our profile as a band over here in Europe. We’d love to go back to the states too, but this time team up with the likes of Freezepop or Cosmicity and do a mini-tour together. We played a one off show in New York in October 2002 and it went across really well. If it were possible, it would also be brilliant to work with the New York DJ Larry Tee on one of his Electroclash Tours, with the likes of W.I.T (who we saw live in Dublin last summer and were really great).