Online Interviews

New interviews at the top, old interviews in a mush at the bottom. For a rating explanation, take a look at the Keith-o-meter

Title	Source	Date	Attendees	Choice Quote	Rating
We Are Scientists play Baruch	The Ticker	Oct 2007	Keith	"We consider ourselves like an antenna for insanity"
Scientists Rock	Harvey Mudd College Bulletin	July 2007	Michael	"I don’t want to be Michael from We Are Scientists. I just want to be Michael Tapper, and a member of We Are Scientists too.”
Bands and Booze	Chris Walker Versus	March 2007	Chris	"Tigers don't go around picking fights and sending people to the hospital like Michael does"
Best of 2006	Seattle Gay News	Dec 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Keith will no longer play guitar. He's going to rock out on piano. Big monstrous, authentic ballads. "
We Are Scientists Heart D.C.	DCist	Dec 2006	Keith	"It was one of the most amazing things we've done, because there would be 5,000 British teenagers in a room singing along to this song that came out when they were eight years old."
A Poignant 'Crap Attack' from We Are Scientists	Eat My Cheese Please	Nov 2006	Chris	"Our songs represent where we’ve gotten to, I suppose to a point we are all equally dissatisfied with. We value what each member brings to it, though"
Chemical Bother	UKMusic.com	Nov 2006	Chris	"The ideal scenario would be for us to start a high class gigolo service for all the disaffected and unhappy moms in the programme”
We Are Scientists	Subba-Cultcha	Nov 2006	Michael	"In this comedic drama I had a small walk on part, so today I was an actor, tomorrow who knows."
We Are Scientists 2	Popworld	Nov 2006	Keith	"Ridiculous, ridiculous. I don't care about North Korea, I want to know what's happening with Heather. Like today I saw she was wearing Stella McCartney boots. What kind of message is this sending?"
We Are Scientists chat to I Like Music	I Like Music	Nov 2006	Chris	"It usually starts because somebody either has a bill they have to pay or there's something that one of us really wants that we don't have enough money for."
We Are Scientists	God Is In The TV	Nov 2006	Keith, Michael	"Well I think to describe us as predators who kill for food is being a bit generous with the ethics. We kill for pleasure."
An Interview with Michael from WAS	Beatrwtz	Nov 2006	Michael	"I like cheese! I’m going to revisit each of them because you know, the pallet might change the taste."
Worth The Wait	High Voltage	Nov 2006	Keith	"They're really, really sweet guys, but they also love to go out and drink. They drank us under the table pretty much. By the end of the tour I felt like I was going to die, but you couldn't be killed by a nicer bunch of people"
The Sounds of Science	Gigwise	Oct 2006	Chris	"I think we've come to terms to the fact that it’s more likely to leave people wondering what's wrong with us than leaving them ecstatic"
Super Cool Awesome Dudes	The Concordian	Oct 2006	Keith	"At one point, we bring a corpse in and we raise the dead. It's not actually really a corpse. It's actually one of the members of Art Brut"
10 Minutes With We Are Scientists	V Festival	Aug 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"I was attracted to a mannequin the other day in Top Shop"
Top of the Class	The Electric Newspaper	Aug 2006	Keith	“Every medieval town these days must have an arcade”
Occupation Pop Star	Pomona College Magazine	2006	Keith, Chris	“Any time anyone asks us if we’re really scientists—to which the answer is, I think, fully selfevident—we say, ‘Absolutely!’”
We Are Scientists	Beat	Aug 2006	Keith	"There is something very noble about blowing your nose into a banknote
Professors of Cool	Think	Aug 2006	n/a	"Every morning, our entire bus is awakened by the opening strains of Limp Bizkit's 'Rollin'"
Curiosity of the Unknown	Time Off	Aug 2006	Keith	“Is it akin to prostitution, where you pay some guy and then you go into a backroom and you get to hold a koala?”
We Are Scientists	Down The Road Webzine	June 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"You’ve got that Hungry Hungry Hippo’s Tournament"
Artist of the Month	Next Month Music	June 2006	Keith, Chris	"Well, I’ve talked to a lot of people, and no reputable detox organization will tackle my problem. Turns out they’re stats are very important to them and they won’t take a losing case."
Interview With WAS	Now On Tour	Unknown 2006	Chris, Keith	"Yeah, we were all sort of the captains of football teams at our respective schools. Dated the head cheerleader, sometimes several cheerleaders at once."
We Are Scientists	Alternative Ulster	Unknown	Keith	"Every night on tour I go to bed terrified I’m going to roll out of the bunk and kill myself. "
Animalistic	Cordmag	June 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"What’s a wolverine? It’s a raccoon that ate some carrot... "
10 Questions with WAS	Cordmag	June 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Would it wear a bear's teeth to chew on a stick?"
Method Men	Nerve	Unknown	Keith	"A long time ago we were going to do a video where we were working in an office and we got a new boss and our boss was a bear, and only weacknowledged that he was a bear, and it worried us terribly."
We Are Scientists	Suicide Girls	Unknown	Keith	"I am never going into outer space at this rate"
We Are Scientists	Mish Mash Magazine	Unknown	Keith	"I guess I did go through the ill-advised acid jazz phase"
Keith Murray in Overdrive	Aced Magazine	July 2006	Keith	"I went home and I started crying. I didn’t go out that night. I felt like I didn’t know myself anymore. I said, 'What kind of person am I?"
We Are Scientists	Shut Up Magazine	June 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"I would have a little bell and ride around campus and ring my bell and everybody would come out of the dorms and I would give them free ice cream."
We Are Scientists discuss tour, pop culture	U-Wire	June 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"I met Pete Doherty at an awards show and pushed him down the stairs. He didn't notice,"
What's The Word	Gigwise	April 2006	Keith	"I believe it was actually in Birmingham Academy. I walked in, flipped on the lights only to find Chris our bass player making out furiously with Kai, bass player of the Mystery Jets"
The Music Lounge	Seattle Gay News	March 2006	Keith	"Everybody except for Michael, who I don't mean to draw any conclusions about what this means, but for some reason the one who doesn't talk so much is the one who doesn't watch The OC."
We Are Scientists	Starry Nights Music	March 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	That’s all we eat in America those are the three basic food groups! Cheese. Chocolate. Steak! It’s all good.
We Are Scientists	Loud & Quiet	Unknown	Keith	"I personally feel much more musically connected with England"
We Are Scientists	Contact Music	Feb 2006	Keith	"You always prepare yourself to be suddenly thrust into a world of incorrigible assholes but with us it has actually never happened"
We Are Scientists	De Klangschau	March 2006	Keith	"One point I think I heard his little ribs crack. It was glorious. "
Weird science gets ready to be rumbled	The Times	Feb 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"“There are many productive things we could be doing. We just gravitate to the things that waste our time"
We Are Scientists	Student Pages	Feb 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"If it had just been a bow murder, it wouldn't have been the same; but since it's ended their lustful fumblings…"
Questions of Science	Groove Stealer	2005	Chris	"We all enjoy ceiling fans, the way they generate air and blow it at us, cooling us in times of swelter. "
More than one beard wonders	Chart Attack	Nov 2005	Keith	"I am going to fight my way into The O.C. whether it is as a band or as a new character or even just an extra. I'm gonna infiltrate it somehow.”
Not Nerds	Chart Attack	March 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"I think he said $600 for photos of us posing naked with our instruments. "
Border Hopping	Chart Attack	Jan 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"You should have seen what we had to do at customs"
We Are Scientists	ATX Magazine	May 2006	Chris	"Michael doesn't do shit. Michael...doesn't...do...shit. He's like the talent, though."
We Are Scientists	Ticketmaster Canada	Unknown	Keith	"So if someone could just talk about my cheeks for a while...All I want is a little equity."
Interview	Domain Cleveland	January 2006	Chris, Michael	"I think the British are very fashionable people, so I don't think it hurts that we sort of lead the way in the realm for them. They think of us almost as deities, to quote the popular fashion publication of the British Isles"
Trust us, for we are scientists	Popworld	Unknown	Keith	"You have not known excitement until you have a fresh pair of socks."
We Are Scientists	Music Snobbery	Dec 1005	Keith	"Let me tell you about how thrilled I am at being number 6,000. It feels pretty frickin good."
Well, we're movin' on up...	Indie Night School	June 2005	Keith	"My particular song-writing regimen requires maximum solitude, as I'm insanely self-conscious about the process."
Editors vs. We Are Scientists	Fused Magazine	Unknown	Keith	"Let's not worry so much about the weight of Tapper's beard, my man. Let's worry about its powers. "
10 Questions with We Are Scientists	BandOfTheDay.com	April 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"We were definitely influenced by the wolf pack as an idea. We use a similar communication system to surround rabbits and foxes."
Backstage at Later...	BBC Online	May 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"When you sleep, and this is something you don't know, and this is something we've all talked about, sometimes when you're sleeping from the bunk we can hear ' Here kitty kitty' "
The Right Chemistry	Independent	May 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Crabby. When we're famous, in a word, my friend, we'll be crabby,"
Vienna ruined album number 2	Fm5.at	April 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Once we have Keith in tears, we know we´ve arrived to a satisfied product. We hit record and we got it."
We Are Scientists keep tongues firmly in cheek	San Diego Union Tribune	March 2006	Keith	“The worst thing about Southern California is when you inevitably leave – as you must – you will miss the Mexican food."
We Are Scientists	Wessex Scene	April 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"If you see someone at two shows in different places, you get scared and call the police. Your blood runs cold. "
Interview - Chris Cain	Undermedicated	June 2006	Chris	"The day those muscular loincloth clad porters, each smelling of a different spiced oil, heaved that giant, masterfully engraved teak chest through our practice space doors – that’s when we knew it would be okay to quit the jobs."
We Are Scientists	Liquid Generation	Jan 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Yes that kitten has directed pornography, yes he's good and yes you should check his stuff out if you're into really hard stuff."
An Evening With We Are Scientists	Sounds of Thunder		Keith, Chris	"I’ll be honest. If these songs don’t make us 100 million dollars, then I’ll bite my own head off"
Interview: We Are Scientists	The Student Life: Pomona College	Unknown	Keith, Chris, Michael	"They were looking for a singer, and I was looking for friends,"
We Are Scientists are sagehens too	The Student Life: Pomona College	Feb 2006	Keith	"I feel like we’re not all that different from most bands, especially ‘indie’ bands, who often favor knitwear and spectacles.”"
Interview	SF Burning	May 2006	Keith	"Sometimes we keep talking till the audience is silent, staring at us. We think it's high quality entertainment."
Mad Scientists	Hear/Say	June 2006	Unknown	"Hot Hot Heat taped our van shut"
We Are Scientists	Moss	Unknown	All	"I was kind of famous because I was the first person to do the in-dorm-room web cam for a porn site”
I Try To Live On Science Alone	Fashionably Late	Oct 2005	Unknown	"Can you imagine what the world would look like if you had catgrass without cats?"
We Are Scientists 1	You Ain't No Picasso	July 2005	Keith	"In our book, enthusiasm goes a long way - we will date even the most homely and dull-witted of girls, if only they demonstrate some interest."
We Are Scientists 2	You Ain't No Picasso	Jan 2006	Keith	"To be honest, for us, being an unsigned band wasn’t that hard because none of us really wanted to be a signed band."
We Are Scientists	The Name Game	Aug 2005	Chris	"We were doughnuts smeared with poo — not appetizing, not even legal to sell"
Amnesiac	Amnesiac	Feb 2006	Keith, Chris, Michael	"Perversely we do feel a compulsion to assist with medical emergency situations, yes"

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