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VM: Hello McFly! How are you all doing today?

Tom: Tired - we've been up since, like, 5am.

Harry: Yeah, we've been working for about 12 hours straight!

VM: OK, I'll go easy on you then. First question: Motion In The Ocean - does that mean something rude?

Tom: Yes!

Harry: Not that rude, it's a natural part of life.

Dougie: It's human nature, and we're only human.
VM: Does that sum up the mood of the album?

Dougie: Horny, ha!

Tom: The album isn't rude, the album's just fun.

Danny: Some good sing-a-long bits and some good, like, big bits as well.

Dougie: The album was going to be quite surf-y, ocean-y anyway, so when someone told us about "motion in the ocean", we thought "ah, that's wicked".

VM: I heard that you were the man with the vision behind the album, Dougie. Is this true?

Dougie: No, no, it wasn't just me. It was a band thing.

Harry: Well I dunno Dougie, I think you should take some of the credit.

Dougie: Well yeah but if it fails I don't want to take the blame!

VM: It's interesting that you describe it as a "happy" album, Tom, because Wonderland had some pretty heavy stuff on it - songs about depression, getting old, suicide. Is this a return to the upbeat style of your debut?

Tom: Well, it's got a big ballad on there, and it's got some emotional moments, but I think in general it's not like Wonderland, it's more happy. Not just happy but just some really good pop songs, we weren't trying to be too clever or anything.

Harry: It's not all happy-clappy though.

Dougie: It's experimental. It's like... jellybeans. Sweet, but also many different flavours. You know, the ones with the menu.

VM: Nice metaphor. What are the flavours on the album, then?

Dougie: There is a black pudding in there, I must say. Probably Transylvania.

Danny: Is there a root beer?

Harry: There's no soap one.

VM: Er, soap?

Harry: Yeah, there's always one that tastes like soap.

Danny: There's a bit of sarsaparilla in there.

VM: Sounds tasty. Is it true that your new single, Star Girl, appeared to you in a dream, Tom?

Tom: It did. Well, the idea for the lyrics did. I had a dream that I wrote a song about falling in love with an alien.

VM: Does a lot of McFly inspiration come from your dreams?

Tom: Not normally, it's never happened before actually. It wasn't even like I fell in love with an alien in my dream, I just wrote a song about it.

VM: In the video you send Dougie up into space, who I also happen to know - from perusing the Internet for naked photos - has a huge space scene tattoo on his chest. Are McFly big fans of space?

Dougie: Hell yeah! Space kicks arse!

Harry: You guys are into Star Wars and things.

Danny: When we used to sit on a hammock and look into space, it was awesome - all satellites and stuff.

Tom: And the weekend before we filmed the video I flew out to Florida because the space shuttle was going up, but then the hurricane happened and it got struck by lightning.

VM: Will you be buying tickets for Richard Branson's first tourist space flights? You must be mega-rich by now.

Tom: We were on a Virgin flight to New York - we always fly Virgin - and we met the Head Of Marketing of Virgin Galactic. And I was wearing a Star Wars T-shirt. And she came over and said, "Are you interested in space?" I said, "Hell yeah!" She gave me her card. I always said we should be the first band to shoot a video in space. With Virgin Galactic!

VM: I'll have a word with the Galactic big cheeses.

Tom: I keep telling our management to email her, but they don't really want to send us into space. Seriously, I'd love to go, I'm saving up. It's like $200,000, or a million Airmiles.

Harry: Really? How many Airmiles have you got, Tom?

Tom: Er, 120 odd thousand. But I use them to like upgrade and stuff. I was trying to work out a loophole in it, if it was cheaper if I just kept flying to New York and back on Virgin and collected the Airmiles.

VM: Let's move on from Airmiles. And from space - here's a good link - to cyberspace. What are your favourite websites, apart from Virgin.net?

Harry: Virgin.net's in my favourites!

Danny: Sex****s.com!

VM: Does this really exist?

Danny: Yeah, it's free! It's amazing.

Dougie: It's like the sex version of Google!

VM: I see. And you all visit this indecent site together, do you?

Harry: I don't permit this.

Tom: No, I don't agree either!

VM: In between visits to sex****s.com, do you swing by your own website and check out the messageboard comments?

Tom: We've got our MySpace, but MySpace is starting to annoy me. It's good for the fans, because we run it ourselves, but it's so hard to keep it up to date.

Harry: I love the Internet for things like doing up my flat, anything I need I just type it into Google.

VM: What about fan comments, do you read them?

Tom: No, that starts to annoy me. If I disagree it's frustrating, it winds me up. So on my one day off I start getting really wound up about what somebody's said on the website, so I've stopped.

Harry: I read messages, and if they say nice things then it's cool, but if you see one saying "McFly are this and that", that's the one you remember. It ruins your whole day!

VM: Let that be a warning to the grumblers. Some of them are a bit crazed, though, aren't they - you can buy "Tom Fletcher Is God" badges on eBay.

Tom: I've got one of them on my bag! I didn't buy it, I was given it.

VM: Doesn't that kind of stuff scare you?

Tom: No - I am actually God.

VM: You are your own religion. And finally - Motion In The Ocean is your third album in as many years. Does this mean we can expect your fourth opus in 2007?

Tom: Maybe, we haven't made any plans. We've got loads of songs ready for the next album, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

VM: And on that mysterious note - goodbye McFly!

All: Bye!

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