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Exclusive Interview!

I asked The Colleys a serious of questions, here are their answers:

Coke or Pepsi?

BILLY: Cherry Coke.

IRENE: Dr Pepper.

What do you think of vacuum cleaners?

BILLY: Currently the devil's house cleaning device, but apparently God is working on a silent version.

IRENE: Noisemaker...

Can you give a brief description of your new album?

BILLY: No.

IRENE: NO, not really, you'll have to wait and see.

What was the first record you ever bought?

BILLY: Marty Robbins' "Cowboy Ballads".

IRENE: I think it was a single, I'm fairly sure it was "Imagine"...

What's on your ipod?

BILLY: Not having an ipod (tools of the devil), I listen to the pure music of John Prine, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and others of the same ilk.

IRENE: Lots of stuff, Beatles (together and solo), Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Joe Brown, Richie Havens, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, it'd take me all day to go through the whole lot.

What's your favourite song to hear live?

BILLY: "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" - John Fogerty.

IRENE: "American Pie" by Don McLean was great to hear live, eh, "Just Likwe A Woman" being sung by Bob Dylan, and by Richie Havens, that's a hard question...

In a fight between a ninja and a pirate, who do you think would win?

BILLY: Considering that most of the pirates are in Asia, it's quite possible that you could have a pirate-ninja, but I'd imagine a pirate would be much sneakier, and just shoot the ninja.

IRENE: Eh, ninja, no, pirate, eh... I don't know.

What's the last album you bought?

BILLY: Mudcrutch.

IRENE: Ringo's "Liverpool 8"

If you had to pick, what would you say is your favourite album of all time?

BILLY: "Blood On The Tracks".

IRENE: Maybe "All Things Must Pass", or a Dylan album, or a Beatles album, oh wait... no, I don't know, I'll stick with "All Things Must Pass".

If you could rid the world of one song, what would it be?

BILLY: I'd rid the world of James Blunt's music, oh, and Brian McFadden's, I'd let them live... just one song?... no, there are too many.

IRENE: I couldn't pick, there are so many terrible songs out there, I've a slight phobia of modern music, anything spawned by the media, anyway, y'know Simon Cowell and whoever else runs those brainwashing "talent shows".

Which five people (dead or alive), would you most like to speak to?

BILLY: Jesus, Bob Dylan, Ernest Hemingway, Marlon Brando, George Harrison.

IRENE: Aw, /billy said George Harrison, I was going to say George... okay, so, George Harrison, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Ayrton Senna, Johnny Cash and either John Lennon or Gandhi...

What is the best film you've seen, and the best book you've read in the past 6 months?

BILLY: Best film, I'd say the new Rambo, best book, "After the Quake" by Haruki Murakami.

IRENE: Film... I would have said Rambo, but he picked that, so "No Country For Old Men" and book... "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda (It was so good when I bought it years ago, I keep reading it.)

What is the best advice anybody has ever given you, and did you listen?

BILLY: "Always take your shirt off before ironing it", and, yes, the second time.

IRENE: "Don't try to fix it yourself, bring it to the shop", and, eh... no, of course not...

What three things could you not go on living without?

BILLY: Music, Speech, Buterflies.

IRENE: Music, Animals, Rainbows.

If they made a film of your life, who would you want to play the part of you?

BILLY: Willie Nelson.

IRENE: An unknown, or a "washed-up" actress, it's never too late for another shot.

Give us a bit of useless information about yourself.

BILLY: I've got very difficult feet.

IRENE: I spend about seven months of the year speaking with a Liverpudlian accent, the rest of the time, I have a strange mixture of accents.

What would you like your last words to be?

BILLY: "Nobody touch my stuff", or "I hope there's cheese in heaven".

IRENE: I don't mind, something profound, I suppose, but chances are nobody would be around to hear my life-changing speech...

Who or what would you like to see at the gates of heaven?

BILLY: Somebody with frontrow tickets to a concert starring John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Elvis, Sinatra, and all the good ones.

IRENE: Eh, I'm not pushed... George Harrison? (blue!)

What song do you want to be playing as you die?

BILLY: "Please Don't Bury Me" - John Prine.

IRENE: "Stuck Inside A Cloud" - George Harrison.

What song best describes your life?

BILLY: "Even Dreams Pass" - The Colleys (it'll be coming out soon).

IRENE: "Desolation Row" - Bob Dylan.

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