You all know each other for a long time but we are wondering: “How did it come to the point that you started a band together?”

R) I met Eddie at the Wendyhouse Club in Leeds where he was looking to start a band, He thought I had a good image and asked if I could play any instruments, I told him that I played drums. and that I had been playing piano since I was 4, to which he responded "Keyboards"... the rest...as they say...is history.

E) And Barry and I knew each other from playing in bands on the scene , I remember having a laugh with him at a gig in slimelight in about 2003, when he kept telling me I looked like
"...that elf from Lords of the Rings" because I was a goth with long white hair.


You have played with Revolution by night, what are the backgrounds of the other members, can you introduce them?

E) I’ll let them introduce themselves:

B) Im coming from a guitar driven industrial metal background. In my previous band I played many shows in the scenes of industrial and metal bands, most notably we toured with KMFDM for the Hau Ruck album in 2005, they were top blokes! Hell, I even once played a gig in London supporting Eddie when he was the guitarist of some dodgy goth band called Voices of Masada,  we got on well cos he was the only guy in that band who would actually talk to any one else.

R) As I already mentioned I've been playing piano since I was 4, my mum was learning to play but could not practice because as soon as she tried I was there trying to play as well. She took me to her piano teacher to learn to play. I always hated the music for exams but it meant I learned the skills to play my own stuff. I've also played drums and percussion since I was 10 with orchestras and bands

What were your original goals and dreams and are they still the same?

B) To have as much fun doing Cybercide and to give the audiences and listeners as much fun also! 

E) The original goals were only to make accessible music to play to our mates in Leeds,  we never thought it would have got us out of the UK, let alone half the gigs we have managed to get, so I suppose we have met those goals. Music scenes are constantly changing, so we are just enjoying the amount of fun we can have while it is there.

R) But that said it has given us the goal of working to make sure the next album is as enjoyable as the last.

You’ve done some remixes for several bands, is there one band you would do a remix for?

B) Not specifically.

E) If I get the time I am happy to remix any one, I’m just not very good at it.

Your album “Adrenalin” is out for awhile already, did it bring you what you expected it to do?

R) I think it brought us more than we had expected, we have had so many fantastic opportunities to play all over the place.

B) it is still bringing more opportunities even now 2 years after it was released.

E) we thought we would end up with a load of Cybercide cds doubling as beer mats in the loft, but now we have just made another pressing to come with demand!!!

 

It seems bands like Assemblage 23 and VNV Nation are a source of inspiration, yet many people say Futurepop is dead, what do you think of this statement?

B) Ignore that statement! It is possible that future pop is less popular than before...but there are many bands out there still flying the flag, although we are not shying away from the prospect of evolving into something else.

E) It's an incredibly narrow minded thing for people to pronounce an entire scene ‘dead’ just because it has been around for over 5 years.  So lets look at the facts:


VNV still sell records, Icon of Coil still play large festivals and Covenant are still filling dancefloors worldwide. All the time there are people who still want it, its fair to say futurepop is not dead, its just underground.

B) Which kind of makes it cool!
We always find it funny when some one makes that daft statement usually just as “call the ships to port” or “dark angel” comes on in a club and BAM the dance floor is suddenly completely full, so you just have to smile and respond”is that a fact?”

R) The main problem with saying that future pop is dead is that you are pigeon holing 'music' into a two syllable word, 'music' is an animal which evolves, if it didn't DJs would only ever play one song and then go home.

Right now you are working on a new album, what will be different, what progress did you made, what lessons did you learn from the recording of the debut album?

B) At the moment it seems to be darker songs with heavier bass, with more prominent melodic hooks, the debut album, is always the easier one, once you get to the second album, you have to make it live up to the first one or every one will say that you are not as capable as before, now we have to keep that momentum that we started with on adrenalin, after this next album hopefully we will settle into a more definitive individual style as most bands do.

R) but of course we are still keeping the classic Cybercide sound so it will still be very recognisable.

E) We have even used things like acoustic guitars in places, that, and my old goth influences have reared their back-combed heads again and so there is a distinct leaning towards elements of Fields of the Nephilim and the Sisters of Mercy in places.


You are supporting Combichrist in March 2009 what does this means for Cybercide?

B) Combichrist are an awesome band that is throbbing right now, they are really healthy for the scene in music terms and pure energetic full-on shows, we also believe in delivering a great visual performance as well as a sonic one and getting the opportunity to support this powerhouse act will also get us heard and seen by alot more people.

R) Cos anyone who knows us knows that we always love to travel to gigs abroad and meet new people, there is nothing else like it.

B) Will be great not only to play Summer Darkness but also getting to meet alot of our European contemporaries too.

E) That and it is a chance not only to play to a great festival crowd to see loads of bands I admire, I usually  so busy in the studio or at my day job I don’t get the chance to see so many of these bands live.


This year several bands of the UK will play at the summer darkness festival, it seems after a quiet period several good bands are standing up, can you explain this, did something change in the uk?

E) Maybe the UK has stopped basking in the light of past glories from over ten years ago, and has got back to work, the bands coming out now are actually making a dent on the mainland, for once. And at last they are dropping the UK factor, by that I mean just cos a band is from UK doesn’t mean they deserve to be headline at a show, they have to earn it, by writing solid tunes that keep dancefloors full.

R) I think one of the big changes is that we all talk to each other and know each other, we play gigs with many other UK bands and there is a little healthy competition between us. Nothing unpleasent, just working with other UK bands inspires us to put on a better show and vice versa.

B) There is a sense of real development in the UK scene right now, almost like a new wave of alternative electronic music. Many good bands are starting to emerge and become noticed. It is great to be a part of this developing scene.

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