It was a great party tonight, did you also have fun?
JF: It was great, even though I was a bit worried in the beginning because we were alone in the tent twenty minutes before starting the gig, but in the end, we had a fullhouse in no time.

And what do you think of the festival?
JF: We would really love to come back as soon as possible, this festival is just like Glastonbury. It's huge and there are plenty of programs. But unfortunately we must leave in about an hour. 

Wasn't it a bit strange to play so early?
JF: To tell you the truth, we don't really like playing when it's not yet dark, and yeah, we were afraid of this schedule in the beginning. But then we saw the crowd in the huge tent and all our doubts were gone.
 
You know, I really wonder why Simian has disbanded.
JF: Well, we just couldn't get along anymore, as people. We tried to function as a band, but at the time I just had a hard time connecting to the others, so when we went on tour or when we should have started to work on our second studio album, the band fell apart. We couldn't really handle individual differences. I think the difference between a good and a lame band is the quality of communication within the band, how various personalities interact with each other.

So now that there are the two of you, is this the perfect form?
JF: We are both very cool and we barely have any quarrels.We respect each other's opinion, I guess it just wouldn't work any other way.

On Temporary Pleasure, you had the chance to work with Beth Ditto, singer of Gossip. What was it like?
JF: We just started working together again, on an another song. She is the most pleasant person I have ever worked with: she is funny, but also weird. Wish I could spend more time with her.  

Do you prefer making remixes or writing your own songs?
JF: These days we didn't really make too many remixes, and right now I could actually say that I prefer to work on my own stuff. We tried to do a couple of remixes not so long ago, but it really didn't work out... you know if you work on somebody else's song, there are certain boundaries and rules you must obey. If you are working on the realization of your own ideas, you just do what you want and go with the flow.

How did you come up with the idea of this roundtable-thing that you also used at Party Arena?
JF: To be completely honest with you, it's going to be a boring answer: just because it's comfortable and easy to use.Our live shows are really vivid, we do live mixes, there is the drum machine, the keyboards, everything is very vivid, we ha have to keep moving all the time. In order to reach this state, we had to choose a table that helps us reach these things, and of course it was also important that we could see each other...
 
How long is the maximum you wait before you put the bass on?
JF: Well, probably since we are playing in several techno clubs these days - even though we are not coming from an electronic background - we have seen a bunch of DJs playing, and realized that the structure they are following is incredibly long. It's interesting to watch how long you can wait, how far you can go, and we really do experiment a lot with this. We play with the audience as long as we can, as long as we see that they are really in the need of the bass...