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Those little tearaways 911 have been getting away with all manner of wrongdoings recently. So Smash Hits sent round the pop police for a serious interrogation...
You stand accused of dumping your management...
Spike:It wasn't something we were happy about doing, but we feel much happier about everything because of it.
Lee: It was a good decision.
Jimmy: (Nodding) It was totally the right thing to do. We've got a new direction and a new (adopting a posh voice) vision.
Spike: We needed a fresh start, 'cos we were getting dull and boring. We needed something to getus going and excite us again.
Lee: We all felt exactly the same about things and we had our hearts set on moving on.
You stand accused of releasing How Do You Want Me To Love You? and then slagging it off...
Spike: It wasn't that we didn't like the single. We just didn't think it should have been released. It was a good album track, but we didn't think it was a strong single.
Lee: Nothing against the songwriters - they've written some brilliant tracks in the past - but we knew it wasn't the right song to sell the album.
Spike: We wanted a fast song - everyone wanted to see us dancing again. That's why we want to go back to the way we were.
Jimmy: I think everyone thought we were going to get dead boring because we did a couple of slow songs. But we're always going to be about songs like Bodyshakin' and Party People...Friday Night.
You stand accused of getting all serious on us...
Lee: Naaaah! It's just an image change. You've got to change with the times, otherwise people get bored of the way you are.
Spike: We're still partying and getting up to mischeif. In fact, we're worse now than we used to be. We're certainly not getting seruous. Our next album's going to be a party album of '70s covers, and we're dead, dead excited about that.
You stand accused of having secret girlfriends...
Spike: They're only secret to each other, hahaha! (All wet themselves.)
Jimmy: I haven't had a girlfriend for five years. People see us with girls and think they're our girlfriends, but they're only dates. We've all had dates and been out with women - you have to, otherwise you'd go mad - but there haven't been any serious girlfriends.
Spike: I couldn't be serious at the moment - there are too many birds out there, hahaha!
Lee: (Pouting) I tried to fix a date for tonight but it didn't happen. I was going to take her to see Saturday Night Fever as well.
Spike: (Becoming all serious) I'd like a bird I could take to a musical. Can you put something in Smash Hits? Something like: 'Wanted: One bird to take to a musical.' (Smiles) Can you get me one?
Lee, you stand accused of dyeing your hair a very dodgy colour...
Lee: (Proudly) I own up to that charge! I was on holiday and I decided to get some streaks done. But when I had them done, everyone said it looked very David Beckham, so I went the whole hog and dyed the lot! It'll grow out in about a month anyway - so if I decide I don't like it, it doesn't really matter.
You stand accused of some serious fashion crimes...
(All look shady and mutter 'Yeah.')
Jimmy: What happened is that, when we started, we really didn't want to have a certain type of image, so we decided to wear whatever we wanted. We got away with it for a while, but now we've got more of an image. The time has come to smarten up!
Lee: You can only get away with wearing bright yellow, pink and blue jackets for so long. Because we're so small, we looked like Michelin men in our baggy clothes. Little Michelin dwarfs!
You stand accused of wearing old man's trilby hats at your album launch...
Jimmy: Oh, that'll be me.
Spike: He's a bit of an old git, isn't he? Me and Lee were laughing at him. He looked like a right idiot! (All wet themselves again)
Jimmy: It's in the bin now! I thought because it was a launch party I'd do something a bit different.
Spike: But you ended up looking like a git, hahaha! All our maters were like "What's Jimmy got on his 'ead?!"
Jimmy: I've recently seen pictures of myself wearing it, and I'll admit it was a mistake.
And finally, you are charged with cancelling your tour...
Jimmy: We haven't cancelled it, we've just postponed it. After all teh hassle with teh management and everything, we thought it would be better to wait. We're doing the Smash Hits Tour first, though.
Spike: We wanted our next tour to be better than our last.
Lee: It's going to be the best yet, so everybody had better get ready!
Taken from Smash Hits Magazine
