Q: Does the audience's facial expression change because of the loudness?
A: Funny thing, the volume draws the people. Before we go on, there's pre-recorded music. Then I hit a few chords, and people actually move closer to the stage. It's the quality of the sound, not the loudness. I used to have a Marshall Valve State and then moved to a Laney '51 head with a pedal. To get distortion I was running too much gain through it, so when I did a quick stop, the feedback would blow peoples' ears off. We call that a "white elephant effect'. But I've had the Mesa Boogie 2 for eight months, and had no problem with it. It's the V8 of amps."

Q: What's the loudest band you've experienced? 
A: "Unsane at the Corner Hotel (Melbourne), they were so loud you couldn't get too close. But it was an annoying loudness because you couldn't hear individual notes. But for a mix of loud and quality, I'd go for Mindsnare. They keep turning it up but sound better each time. The sound goes right through your body!"

Q: What's the loudest record you've heard?
A: Guns N'Roses' Appetite For Destruction. It rocks! It's designed to be played very loudly."

Q: Has a 28 Days gig become so intense you've smashed up your gear or someone?
A: "That's a very rock star thing to do, which we're not into. I'm sure it looks and sounds cool but someone's got to pay for it. Our audiences do get right into us. We're not phased if someone doesn't like us; I mean, that's OK, wait until the next band comes along. Once we got dissed by some people, but they got told off by our singer Jay's mum!"

Q: When's the last time 28 Days had a fist fight?
A: "Last week? Naah! We don't fight a lot, we're pretty down to earth. But put a bunch of guys in a van for a couple of weeks, and something as trivial as someone wanting a smoke inside the van turns into a major drama!. But we deal with it."

Q: What's your favourite guitar?
A: "A Fernandes, which I bought  off Rueben from the Seminal Rats, it's my pride and joy. I've got Seymour Duncan pickups, which kick ass, and it goes well with the Mesa. It's got a good powerful sound and, touch wood,
I've never broken a string onstage, which I'm proud to say. I'm also acquiring a black Les Paul Gibson Studio as a backup, it's tough too. I've got a $150 steel string Deville which is basically to muck around with."

Q: What else is in your setup?
A: "I run the Mesa Boogie through my Laney quadbox. Occasionally I run it through a Marshall with a stereo cabinet. But the Laney gives me the sound I want. It's got an awesome gain so I don't even have to use pedals, except for my foot switch when I want to go from clean to distortion."

Q: What production tricks did you use to get the tough sound on the EP?
A: "Pro-Tools is a computer program that boosts your timing. Amp Farm is a Pro-Tools program which allows you to run 20 to 30 different amps to give you a real beefy sound, you can layer it with all kinds of combinations. 
Obviously you can't reproduce that onstage. Personally I prefer raw sounds to effects."

Q: Do the guitarists who first inspired you still inspire you?
A: "I started with Jimi Hendrix and Mark Knopfler, they're the best ever. I don't play that style but I appreciate what they do. I listen to a lot of hardcore guitarists. The one from CIV is awesome. So's the one from 411, they were from San Francisco and they've broken up, but he did great stuff from pop/rock to hardcore."