How long have you all been together in JOR and how long do you see it lasting?

We have been together for many years both as friends and as a band. I have known guitar player Aynz for a couple of years less then the others but that makes no difference. It will last as long as a piece of string, you never know, but lets hope we live long enough to see gold!!!

Were you in different bands before? What were they called? (What sort of style?)

We were in a band called Paramecium before and Anyz was in a band called Pang. Pang were the ultimate cheese band and we, Paramecium, were just shit and probably classed as indie rock.

What is the average age of the band members?

Well mentally about 5, actually we are all 22,23.

How would you guys describe the way you sound? Would you define it as hardcore or nu-metal for example?

Neither to be honest. I think BRUTAL is the best way to describe our music. Im sure people have classed us as one of those, and hey that's fine but we class our selves as how we play.

When was the album recorded and was this an arduous process or did it all come together smoothly?

Recording always pisses me off (Ben vox) cos I have to sit there the longest. But luckily there was a Sega Mega drive with Dessert Strike, so I played that for about 11 hours a day while we recorded, funny think is I was still shit at it after three weeks. But recording is always fun cos you get to hear all your hard work come together. Working with Dave Chang was wicked, he's fucking thorough.

I often find it very rare for bands to imitate the kind of energy they have on stage and put it to CD but was astounded at not only the quality but the raw energy that Blunt possessed, it is an awesome album and in comparison to your live performance style it is totally spot on, was it difficult in a sense to make the CD sound as good as your live sets and capture the energy?

Yeah it was fucking hard, and to be honest I don?t think we will ever capture the live sound on CD, its just purely adrenalin fuelled, when we record it looses some of that energy, but hey im glad you liked it!

How are you guys finding your seemingly busy touring schedule and are you hoping to get over to Europe and are there any plans to tour America or is that still a long way off?

Well we want to play anywhere that will have us. No plans as yet to go anywhere but the UK but we are open to offers. Its cool touring the UK but we really want to be doing it every day, at the moment we aren't but its gonna get busier for us from now on. I wouldn't say it was along way off as we have played with Spine Shank, Dry Kill Logic and soon The Dead Kennedys so, you never know!

When was it you guys signed to Loudspeaker and how have your relationship with them as a record company been?

We signed last year in the summer and it was like a dream come true for me. Although it is hard work, we don't have fifty pound notes yet to wipe our arses with, but it's not work if you enjoy it, and we do! The label is cool and we get on really well with them.

Since I am interviewing you for a straightedge based website what are your perspectives on the straight edge movement?

Smoke weed if you want to, drink if you want to, or don't if that's what you beleave in, just do what you want to and tell the person that tells you other wise to get in a JOR pit and announce that to the people and watch them get ripped apart! JUST BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE.

What do you make of the UK scene in general, there currently seems to be an abundance of really good bands and who are your favourite UK bands?

The UK scene has been getting bigger and bigger with some class bands coming out, but also there are a surplus of corporate love boys out there, who sell them selves to their label and be all that the label wants them to be!. and not them. Favourite uk bands have to be Autonomy and Sikth and errr AUTONOMY, we love Stoopi too cos we get very drunk when we gig with them and some sort of crime happens when we are with them!!

What are you guys into besides being in the band, do any of you work full time? Or are any of you in full time education and if so what are you studying?

Well funny you should ask, I have just finished a four year course at Uni on Entertainment Industry Management, so I am prepared to take on those dick heads in the music industry that think the sun rises and sets in their pants! We all pretty much work and play, Roland (drums) is well into shooting things at the moment, he's bought three air guns and cant stop shootin targets, birds, cats, small children, you name it he shoots it, Roland you bad boy stop it!!

Who would you all most like to tour with and why?

That's the million dollar question, I would love to tour with a massive band cos that would mean that lots of people would get to hear us. I would have cut my balls off to gig with Snot but hey, no chance of that now.

What's your favourite venue that you?ve played in and what was your favourite line-up that you have been a part of?

Favourite venue we played in would have to The Astoria in London it was pretty amazing to play in a place that size. Favourite line up would be Spineshank, Dry Kill Logic and us that was pretty amazing.

Ok well thanks for the interview, its short and sweet but I didn't wanna overwhelm you all with dumbass questions! thanks again,

They aint dumb, take it easy dude!

Live photos taken at the Camden Underworld

JOR's album Blunt is out in stores now on Loudspeaker so go pick up a copy!!