André Savetier: Thank you for your time, David. How is the work going with the Post Modern Conspiracy album?

David B: It was supposed to be finished in the summer, but I'm one of those people that wants everything to be as perfect as I can make it, so I've kept changing things. I keep adding and taking away drum loops, and mixing certain tracks again.

Savetier: When can we expect the record then?

David: End of February. We have to get it out, we have around 20 other new tracks that we want to start work on.

Savetier: A long wait, but I am sure it will be worth it. 20 tracks?? Where from do you take your creativity, or lets call it inspiration?

David: While the world is full of inequalities and right wing governments, there continue to be a lot of things to inspire us to write songs. Musically we are obviously inspired by a lot of alt rock/ goth/industrial bands, but in the rhythms I listen to a lot of dubstep and drum and bass for inspiration.

Savetier: But your image seems to be more punkish...

David: We are all punk rock till we die:) We are very much with the punk rock DIY ethic. Even now as our third single is about to come out, we still haven't sent a single track to a record label. We do everything ourselves, with the exception of mastering. A friend of mine, who has just remastered all the Crass recordings, does the mastering for me.

Savetier: But if some producer would come and say: "Hey, you're great, let's work together!", what would you do?

David: I'd not be that keen, I wouldn't mind somebody else mixing our recordings, if I could be there as executive producer. We record everything in my front room, I can then spend three weeks just working on a drum track, we couldn't do that with somebody else's time. I have several friends who have produced quite famous records, so if I'm stuck I phone them for advice.

Savetier: As I am not from England, maybe you can tell me more about how the resonance on your first two singles was. I remember that, when 'Someone Like You' was released I listened to the track over and over again.

David: The reaction has been really good, we've had a lot of radio play, from all over the world, which has been amazing, even now 'Someone Like You' and 'Winter of Discontent' are both on rotation of several radio stations. We were invited into the BBC and Kristi and I were interviewed by Tom Robinson, which was amazing.

Savetier: You have been labelled by the critics as a very promising band. I am sure a lot of people can't wait to get your record in their hands. How does that feel?

David: I will never fail to be amazed when people like our music, it makes me feel very humble. We're just three very ordinary people (well, apart from my hair) who like to make music. And when some of the big promoters have asked us to play shows for them, we are just amazed.

Savetier: I was listening to your third single 'What's So Good About It?' and I think you can add with it to your previous success.

David: 'What's So Good About It?' has been very well received so far, the other day Irvine Welsh [the author of Trainspotting] was tweeting about the video. Irvine Welsh said about our video "amazing, fucking brilliant". I had to sit down for 30 minutes.

Savetier: Wow, now that is a thing! How many shows did you play so far?

David: I think we've only done about ten shows. But we've played with Roger Daltrey, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pop Will Eat Itself, A Place to Bury Strangers. And we headlined Alan McGee's club night, that was fabulous, it was sold out and the kids went mental. We thought they would hate us before we went on.

Savetier: Who makes the videos? Also you?

David: Yeah, I cut up lots of news footage to make our videos.

Savetier: CAA is quite obviously a band with a political message. Where is CAA's place in the musical, where in the political world?

David: In music like politics, we are left field. If we ever have a hit it will be by accident. Politically we want a world without poverty, of equal opportunities for all. The only reason for poverty is the greed of the few. People often act like socialism is a dirty word, well if having a social conscience makes me unclean, I can live with that. (Ouch, my cat just bit my foot)

Savetier: Haha, greetings to your cat. What's her name?

David: Noodles. She's was named after the guitarist from The Offspring. The day we got her, he tweeted me to say he'd see me at Reading Festival, and my girlfriend said, Noodles would be a good name.

Savetier: Was The Offspring one of your sources of inspiration?

David: I have seen them 30 times. J toured with them twice in his band before CAA. I used to manage his old band, Caffeine. They played with loads of great bands, AFI, The Dickies, Rancid etc.

Savetier: Who else made an impression on you musically? You seem to make a mixture between gothic rock and punk. On the internet somebody tagged you as "electro industrial goth punk hit of wonder". Actually, it is easy and difficult at the same time to categorize your musical style. There is a slight impression of "I know this", until you are reaching the point when you're not sure any more.

David: I personally take musical inspiration from old bands like Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, NIN, but also recent bands like Editors, Interpol, We Are Scientists. Kristi actually has Russell from Editors' bass that he played on the first album. Yeah, we are a mesh-up of a few styles, yes there is a retro feel, but with a modern twist. The album has a dub-step track and a another with hip-hop feel to it, but both still sound like us.
I'm really looking forward to people hearing the last track of the album 'The Demise Of Society As We Know It' it has this amazingly fat sub bass on it, that I'm sure will get parents shouting upstairs for kids to turn it down. I hope you're right, I can't see how anyone can disagree that society isn't evenly balanced and that something should be done to redress the balance. I really don't see us having one target audience, other that those who like a chorus and have a conscience.

Savetier: But do you think that music can provoke actual changes? I mean, it definitely had in the 60‘s and the 80‘s, but is this still possible today?

David: Damn, that's a hard one, the world seems like a mixture or apathy and hedonism, the music industry is full of greed, can music make a difference? I'd like to think so. I feel that not enough is being done, so hopefully my lyrics will touch a few people and inspire them to work toward a better planet. I may be deluded:) They may prefer to be more concerned as to when they can get pissed again, but I hope not. I can't become an MP as the Sunday papers would say I'm too "rock and roll" so music is the only soap box I have. I was very glad that the US reelected Obama this week, as I think Romney could have led the planet to World War III.

Savetier: What do you think about the development of music? Simon Reynolds called it the age of "re"; reunion, retro, revival, recycling. Did music lose its character, its social and political dimension?

David: Totally, music suffers from Emperors New Clothes syndrome, people believe that because they hear a song continuously on Radio 1, that is must be good. Music has become a product, people get into it for the wrong reasons. There are only two reasons somebody should get into music. 1. They want to make great music, and, 2. they want to make great music:) Music should be a vocation, like the missionaries taking religion to distant parts of the world. Although I'm not as keen on religion as I am on music:)

Savetier: Rajko Muršič, professor for anthropology in Ljubljana, is concerned about the recent development in popular culture and drew a line to society. When the youth developed a new dance or a new style of music, it used to be an indicator for a change. But this did not happen in the last decade.

David: That's very true, until the arrival of dubstep. So maybe we are about to turn the corner. We haven't had a massive global subculture since nu metal, ok, there was the return of indie, but it wasn't as big as the media tried to make it out to be.
Btw, I had Simon Reynolds book, Rip It Up, off my bookshelf the other day, I'm gonna read it again. Reynolds was a good music journalist, at name and sounds. Have you read any of the Iggy Pop biographies? You kinda end up liking him less after you've read them. The best music book I've read in ages is California Schemin by Gavin Bain. It's a true story of how two lads from Scotland convinced the music industry they are rappers from California.

Savetier: One question I have, as you mentioned dubstep. I am not firm with this kind of music. I know how it sounds, but that already all. Does it have a socio-cultural or political message?

David: Most of it doesn't, however in the attitude towards making music it is very punk, in so much as, everyone can do it, without being able to play:) My only problem is the amount of ketamine on that scene, kids screwing themselves up with horse tranquillizer is not a good thing...

Savetier: For the official part, we could conclude now with some words, you might want to say to the readers.

David: For the readers I'd like to say, look at the world around you, like nice people whatever race colour creed religion they are, and don't tolerate assholes. Assholes are the people who have got this world into the mess it's in, it is time to stand up, and tell them, enough is enough.

Savetier: Now, that's a word! Thank you for this interview and all the best for your musical mission.