If it's okay I would like to ask a question about the band's name. I know of
the cannibals reference to longpigs but did you actually have that in mind when
you were naming your band?

"Yes," begins Crispin. "That was why we really called it that. There was a trashy pulp novel sat around the studio where I recorded the first demo and it was called 'The Longpigs'. It was a cross between a bad James Bond novel and Robinson Crusoe."

I thought it might have had some relevance to 'Lord Of The Flies'?

Crispin continues, "It's in there and Robert Louis Stevenson and stuff. I just found it so funny. I'm an atheist and I don't believe in life after death. I believe that human beings are very brilliant animals. We are animals and I get very annoyed when people start thinking we're close to God. The perfect example is how our band has had to change its name in loads of Muslim countries. This is because they find the word Longpig a little offensive and that almost goes to prove it. The reason why so many fundamentalist religions find it so offensive is because they are too close to us. You'll get these religious people start walking round, thinking 'I have reached a spiritual level and a spiritual plain and my mind if I correct it, will be close to God'. You look at pigs being put into a human being (recently a pig heart was used in an operation - Ed) and they are pink and bloody intelligent, shockingly similar to human beings. That's why fundamentalist religions don't like pigs because it reminds them that we are pigs."

And this happened when you went to Malaysia?

"No we haven't been there yet," states Crispin.

"It was about them not wanting to release our records there and wanting us to change our name," adds Simon. >>