5. HOW DOES THE BAND LOOK TODAY, WHO¡¦S DOING WHAT?
See photo enclosed!! Paul "Lumpy" Rooney plays lead guitar,
Mike "Mildred" Giaquinto plays the bass,Tone "Noisy" Piper plays drums and I (Beki) sing lead vocals and play rhythm guitar.

6. WHO DOES THE SONG WRITING, LYRICS, MUSIC?
Lumpy and me.
Lumpy mainly the music, me mainly lyrics, but I have written some songs entirely on my own and Lumpy sometimes helps with titles for songs and bits of lyric.

7. WHAT GIVES YOU THE IDEAS TO THE LYRICS?
Things I read about, things I see on TV, people I meet,dreams......all sorts of things.
Lyric writing is pretty hard as you have to try to be as original as possible whilst making words rhyme and fit the melody line.

8. WOULD YOU CALL YOURSELF A PUNK BAND OR HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC?
We are a Punk ROCK band.

9. YOUR USA TOUR HOW WAS IT, WORK OR FUN OR BOTH AT THE SAME TIME?
The last one was pretty stressful due to our visas being late and losing some of the best gigs because we couldn`t get the visas on time.
The tour before that one was pretty cool and a lot of fun,though.

10. HAVE YOU GOT A FAVOURITE GIG THROUGH THE YEARS?
No,there have been loads of really good ones, so we couldn`t name just one as being the best ever.

11. THE AUDIENCE, IS IT THE SAME AS IT WAS IN THE 80:S OR HAS IT CHANGED MUCH?
It`s much more mixed now, we get teenage kids,old school punks, skinheads, heavy metal fans, all partying together.

12. ARE THERE ANY BANDS THAT YOU COULD SAY HAVE BEEN A GREAT INFLUENCE FOR THE VICE SQUAD?
None really, we don`t sound like any of the bands that we like.

13. HOW DOES YOUR FAMILIES TAKE¡¦S IT WHEN YOUR OUT TOURING?
I deliberately chose band members who weren`t married and didn`t have kids so that we could dedicate ourselves to music.
My parents aren`t particularly happy when I end up going without food and sleep on tour for days on end but they can`t stop me doing it, and as I don`t have the responsibility of children or a day job I`m able to devote myself to writing songs and doing gigs.

14. THERE ARE A LOT OF NEW PUNK/Oi! BANDS, WHAT¡¦S YOUR OPINION ABOUT THEM?
Good for them, it`s good that they like that type of music and want to play it, it keeps the punk movement alive and gets new people interested in it.

15. HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO ANY SWEDISH BANDS?
Yes, ABBA!!!But seriously, we do like "Clawfinger".

16. HOW DOES IT WORK OUT WITH THE NEW RICH AND FAMOUS ALBUM, IS IT SELLING GOOD, WHAT IS THE RESPONSE? ARE YOU ALL RICH AND FAMOUS NOW ļ
No!!!!!!The title was ironic. We are still poor and infamous!!

17. IF I GO TO A VICE SQUAD CONCERT, WHAT COULD I EXPECT TO HEAR, OLD OR NEW MATERIAL?
You`ll hear both old and new.

18. ARE THERE ANY TOURS PLANNED, IF THAT¡¦S THE CASE CAN WE EXPECT TO SE YOU IN SWEDEN?
No tours planned at the moment.
We did a lot of badly organised tours in the past and we want to do them properly this time,so we`ll only work with good promoters now.

19. CAN YOU TELL SOME SPECIAL MEMORY FROM A GIG?
It was great doing the Orange County Pavillion in California on the Social Chaos Tour because we got to play to ten thousand people.
To celebrate, I treated myself to 50 cents worth of pop corn after because I hadn`t eaten for a couple of days!!!

20. YOU HAVE BEEN ROUND TOUR A LOT, WHERE ARE YOU MOST TEMPTED TO PLAY? ARE THERE ANY PLACE THAT YOU HAVE TO PLAY?
We haven`t played South America, Australia,Japan or Sweden,Norway and Finland yet, so we`re keen to tour these places.

21. IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WANT US ALL TO KNOW ABOUT VICE SQUAD?
Write to us at
POWERDRILL,
P.O BOX 14015, LONDON SW12 9WD
UK
or visit our websites www.vicesquad.co.uk and lastrockers.com

22. OTHER INTERESTS OUTSIDE MUSIC ARE THERE ANY? SPORTS, MODERN ART, LEVITATION OR SOMETHING ELSE?
I`m interested in Animal Rights and Mildred`s interested in Ladyboy bars,Lumpy likes crap sci fi b-movies and Tone likes saws and drills.
We all share an interest in drinking but we`re mainly into music as that`s a full-time job anyway.