MM: After four more releases over the following three years; “The Arabian Mushroom” (M&E 445), “Lovemuscle Baby” (M&E 477), “Collaboration (with Expose Your Eyes)” (M&E 478) and “Sons Of The Succulent Beatnik” (M&E 570) the Acidfuck adventure seemed to come to an abrupt end. Unfortunately, as your next project emerged, The Purple Better One, M&E was starting to slow down a bit and the end wasn’t far away. We released “Human Vortex” (M&E 576) and “The Purple Better Two” (M&E 598) in May 2003, which would turn out to be our very last batch of releases, so they never really got a chance to shine with us. How did the project pan out and are you still up to anything musically now?

KT: Acidfuck recordings faded after I settled down with Andrea and family life began – it became more and more difficult to fit in the series of stoner jams of Acidfuck and mindwarp concepts. I managed to get the time in for a few solo projects and collaborations – but time – or rather lack of it – with being one of two working parents with two growing kids – is the big enemy here. I released two full length releases as solo projects under the name of The Purple Better One,  following more experimental and more self focussed approaches. However, I have still been keeping active with a few remixes and collaborations with Killy Dog Box and the Prestidigitators, and collab sessions with my old chum, Mal Short.  I have also been behind a number of video projects – filming the A Band live in Newcastle on a couple of occasions, doing video work for the Nihilist Assault Group, both as live projections and as part of an upcoming DVD releases; an epic 5 concert live video release for English noise artistes, Smell & Quim, including two definitely warped video remixes from myself.

MM: In the last published UWU Newsletter (New Year 2001), it mentioned that Andrea and yourself had recently had baby William, who would be 12 now, so we can’t call him ‘Little Billy Acidfuck’ anymore! Sam and I came to stay with you and your good lady (ta kissy kissy) in the summer of 2007, and by then you had Mia as well. So how is family life going for you and what kind of impact have your past musical adventures had on your children (you’ll recognise my motive for asking!)? God help you if they still do ‘show and tell’ at schools! “Your daddy was in a pop group called WHAT, William?”

KT: Family life is excellent – at the time of writing William is 12, and about three inches shorter than me – just started secondary school and getting regularly bombed out with homework. Mia is eight and just started what we used to call juniors. Having settled down with Family completes a big missing piece of my life – but the flip side of the coin is; the time and effort to make the whole thing work means that there is often very little time or energy left to do anything else – so my own projects have had to be put in the background, finding time to work on sound, graphics or video ideas whenever I can find a spare moment. Both kids generally hate my music, as does Andrea – and just condemn it all as musical noise or an awful racket. Having said that, I had William sampled during infancy for the track Son, used on the second solo CD of the Purple Better One; Mia also got an epic sampling treatment for a piece sent to Monopolka records over in Russia! I have managed to get both children involved on the input side of musical projects too, using computer based programmes like Rebirth with William, and now with the iPad, using the app, Figure, with Mia. Incidentally, both kids are quite musical, in the more acceptable sense of the word – William has just passed his Grade 2 piano with a Merit,

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