by Jay Snyder
June 21, 2008

Tractors are noisy, ugly things aren't they? They constantly emit a grating racket, clearly audible in all directions when they are going about the business of plowing down everything in their path, much akin to Bristol's finest noise-rock trio sporting the same moniker. Tractor embodies the fiercely DIY values of the underground extreme music scene and unleashes a rhythmic carpet-bombing of haggard drumming, driving bass groove, and searing walls of guitar noise topped off by endlessly, lamenting vocal shouts. Their rugged, grinding pace shares a pinch in common with doom's slowness but the pulsating rhythms place the bass far out in front. They call it Godflesh doing Unsane covers… and they're not too far off. Hank, Kunal and Craig (i.e. the entire band) sit down with Hellride to get to the heart of this one-of-a kind noise maelstrom, so crack a beer and enjoy.


Hellride Music: Before I even get to any sort of main questioning or theme here, I have to get a few things off my chest. You guys embody a little bit of everything that I truly enjoy in music. You're heavier and slower than a heard of wooly mammoths, more noisy than any wall of factory noise and the work ethic behind the music is fiercely DIY. You send out nicely packaged demos (especially "Cattle"), include all of the lyrics and do it all for free to boot. What kind of ethos do you men have to pull all of this off so well and with seemingly no outside forces lending a helping hand?

Kunal: Thanks a lot! I think the "ethos" may be more down to not knowing what the hell we're doing most of the time rather than having some sort of a grand scheme for world domination. The reasoning behind giving our demos away was summed up quite nicely by Hank once - it seems perverse to make people who actually want a copy pay for it, whereas people who most likely won't give a shit get it for free. In retrospect, maybe we should have charged a quid or so. People are dumb and seem to distrust freebies. Thanks a lot for the nice comments on the packaging for "Cattle". I wanted something a bit more permanent than a photocopied paper sleeve so that people would be more likely to hold onto it. I wasn't expecting it to turn out as nicely as it did though. Those little self-adhesive plastic nubbins (or spiders as they are known in the industry) that hold the CD in were a masterstroke if I do say so myself.

Craig: Thanks. Glad you like it. No ethic other than we do things when the time is available and we try to do them as well as we can with the resources available.

Hank: How do's Jay. We are just tarting ourselves around at the moment – seeing who's interested. We give away our CDs to anyone who is interested. There is not necessarily an ethos behind it – more like a "ta for coming and making the effort". Kunal put the ‘Cattle' package together. We know that we ain't gonna cover the costs of producing the CDs as we are sending them out to reviewers etc, so we keep the costs as low as possible, and for the sake of recouping a few quid, we might as well use them as fully as possible for a bit of marketing.


Hellride Music: Now that I got that query out of the way, tell me a bit about the band. Who are the guilty parties behind this onslaught of noise and how did you all meet up?

Kunal: Tractor is Craig (guitar, vocals), Hank (bass) and Kunal (drums). Tractor has always pretty much been Craig and Hank's thing. They've known each other for 35 years or something ridiculous like that. I'm one of a cast of many ex-drummers (and a drum machine!), though I think I've been the longest standing after having joined about two and half years ago. I never considered myself much of a drummer, but tried out on a whim having seen them a good number of times around Bristol and my (lack of) style suits the music to a tee arguably. It was nice to join a band that had already established what sound they were going for and had a wealth of original material already written.

Craig: I found Hank under a rock at school. We met aged 12. We met Kunal, also when he was aged 12, two years ago. On the Internet. We're grooming him.

Hank: Craig / Kunal / me. I've known Craig since school, and we met Kunal after he wanted to put out something of ours on his SuperFi label. The drummer before Kunal left to play with Geisha, so Kunal stepped in and knew the sort of drumming style that was needed, and here we are today.


Hellride Music: You keep things cut to a nice lean three piece. Somehow it manages to sound like 6 or 7 miscreants are making all the noise. What kind of equipment set-up does it take to get that kind of enveloping sound? The bass tone alone shakes my entire house.

Kunal: I like trios. It keeps things stripped down, efficient and requires / leads to maximum communication between the constituent members. Look at High On Fire, Melvins, Nirvana, The Minutemen to name four - all trios that achieve something different in their sound, and all nailing it. I don't mind saying that the bass is the crucial part of Tractor, carrying as it does both the rhythm and the melody. That tone is achieved by channeling a shit bass through a shit pedal through a shit amp. Three wrongs make a right clearly. Hank might have something to do with it too. Craig has a few pedals, including the usual distortion kit, but also the killer auto-wah for the total noise freakouts. You can see audience members flinch whenever that one's on. I just drum.

Craig: Down tuning. Sovtek BigMuff plus Heavy Metal pedal and Auto Wah. Bass Overdrive. Then we fuck about with the settings on the amps.

Hank: Tis all cheap ‘n' simple stuff – the usual distortion / overdrive pedals blah blah. Nothing complicated.


Hellride Music: Honestly, I couldn't even imagine you guys in the live setting. Answer me truthfully; is Tractor even louder in the live setting? If so I can picture bleeding ear drums, crying babies and all sorts of madness.

Kunal: We try to be as loud as we're allowed to be (since we often have to borrow amps). More often than not people aren't familiar with us when we've played live, so people are probably taken aback by a band that don't look exactly normal and sound so straight down the line. I hope people don't bring babies to our gigs! The general reaction the few times we play have been pleasantly positive I think, especially outside our hometown of Bristol, which we play quite often, and with the same bunch of songs until recently. We are on Youtube if you can't wait for us to play over there!

Craig: At the right venue, yes. We need to upgrade some of our gear so that PA-less nights are louder.

Hank: Only when we've got a PA behind us, or are borrowing another band's amps. I think I need to splash out on something more powerful for the bass for those ‘plug-in-and-play' gigs.


Hellride Music: I've noticed a constant development in sound over the course of your material. Everything keeps getting tighter and tighter with each recording. That brings me to the new EP, "Cattle". It's massive. How do you feel the sound is progressing from recording to recording?

Kunal: The songs we've put out up until now are really from the same 6 or 7 year period of gestation (which means some of them were finished long before I even joined). We merely took our time recording and releasing the stuff. Sonically, I personally like the newer stuff ("Cattle") done by John at Chuckalumba Studios. It's a lot filthier, heavier, nasty, organic. John lives on a farm in the middle of nowhere near the south coast, and has done work with Electric Wizard, Hunting Lodge, Humans the Size of Microphones, Facel Vega and many more. The "Cattle" songs were pretty much done in a matter of hours, though John hopes to make the next session sound even huger, so I'm looking forward to going there again.

Craig: I always go off the live practice room tapes which often sound raw rather than aim too much for a particular quality of sound. It's easier to record live for us and worry about the sound later, as we play off each other. I like that we record together live. The last EP had a very good sound thanks to Chuckalumba, who Kunal suggested. The last EP was earlier songs, so we play them tighter.

Hank: For the stuff we've put out, the recording was done at a different place each time, which made differences to the sound. John at Chuckalumba Studios did a marvelous job on ‘Cattle' – giving a good impression of what we sound like live (hopefully). We're not looking for anything too clinical.


Hellride Music: "Cattle" incorporates some sheer white-noise guitar into the meaty drum and bass structures. Were you guys intentionally trying to combine some avalanche of noise type droning in the vein of Merzbow, Swans and Halo into a more structurally solid form of groove like Unsane, or did it just come naturally?

Kunal: I'd agree with that. That white noise is coming from Craig's auto-wah pedal again. Horrible sounding thing. In place of a guitar solo or middle-eight, we'll shove in a "noisy bit" before ending the track. We really do have very traditional verse-chorus-verse song structures. If this is a roundabout way of asking what our influences are without asking it in a cliched way, I'll rise to the bait and list some bands for you: Hammerhead, Melvins, Swans, Unsane, Godflesh, Helmet, Butthole Surfers, Cherubs, Cows, Jesus Lizard, Shellac, High On Fire, Bongzilla, Unearthly Trance and so on. I don't know if there is such a thing as a Merzbow sound since he's done such a wide range of stuff. Halo is a great band, never really thought about them in our context, but yeah I'd gladly take the comparison - very pained, dirge-y feedback drenched noise rock. I don't know if you've heard of a band called Air Conditioning, but they did noise rock, with a major emphasis on the noise, totally submerging the guitar and drums at times. Amazing.

Craig: No real plan. Just want to play some music with some balls - the sound tells you what bands we like, the noise is integral for me, never really thought too much about it. Loud is good.

Hank: No. We are a Godflesh doing Unsane covers band. I don't know – when writing songs we fiddle around with ‘em until it sounds ‘right'. So, that ‘right' sound for us must be influenced by other bands. Personally, I'm looking for something with a good ‘tribal' rhythm with some horrible noise over the top of that and some bugger shouting at you. That is the band.


Hellride Music: With the sheer strength of your material, especially "Cattle" and the prior demo, was there any reason you chose to give out (not put out, because you give them out!) shorter releases instead of waiting a bit and combining them into a full-length? You can't tell me no label would be interested in putting such quality material out. You yourself, Kunal are the boss man of Super Fi records. Why not put out a disc on your own label? More people need to hear this stuff!

Kunal: Well, as I write this, there are actually plans to release Tractor material in the form of a split 7" with Hey Colossus, and that will be on a bunch of USA and European based labels. SuperFi isn't involved. I'm not sure how I feel about releasing material by my own band. I like the idea of someone else finding it worthy of release too, willing to put time and money into making it happen. It validates us as a band I think. To make a larger scale comparison, take a look at Isis - Aaron Turner could easily have put his band's stuff out on Hydrahead, but he avoided that (bar some limited EPs I think), and it worked out great. I don't know if there are many labels that would be into the Tractor "sound". We are essentially a throwback to that golden age of Amphetamine Reptile (late 80's / early 90's), so we could do with a time machine really now that they're defunct. I've sent copies to likely present-day candidates, we shall see what happens. I'm sure they get loads of demos and emails linked to MySpace pages every day anyway. As for putting out stuff out straight away, circumventing the demo process is something that's happening too often. A lot of bands seem to form in a flurry of enthusiasm, write some mediocre crap, trick someone into releasing it, and then split when the novelty has worn off and there's still a ton of records to sell that no-one wants. At least this way, we've put the feelers out to see if there are like-minded souls into what we're doing first, and then we'll take it from there.

Craig: We're low key. We don't have a lot of time to tour or record. We pretty much put stuff out as we do it. We all work, are not after a deal, it's an agricultural labour of love.

Hank: The two CDs have 3 and 4 tracks on them because that is what we wanted to record at the time. Costs came into it in these decisions, as did what we wanted to do with ‘em – i.e. chuck ‘em out to folk and see what happens. I don't think an album would be appropriate at this stage. We don't want to bore folk just yet with 10 tracks lined up one after the other. There's time for that later perhaps. The split 10" was done because Kunal offered the chance to put something out on SuperFi before he joined the band. He's not keen at the moment to do another Tractor / SuperFi release, which is fine. Hopefully we can convince someone else to do something with one or two of our songs – hence the ‘demo' CDs.


Hellride Music: I've got to mention that Tractor lyrics are some seriously pissed off business. They sound like the words of a man on a drunken, back alley killing spree. Real Jack the Ripper stuff for certain. What are tracks like "Man from Another Place", etc. all about? That's a mean as nails tune.

Kunal: Although I wouldn't recommend it, you'd have to talk to Craig about this. I like them too. Very anecdotal, story-based, abstract without being completely opaque. But yeah, they're Craig's thing. Importantly they need to fit the rhythm of the music, to almost become another instrument in a way.

Craig: LOL. Just look on the lyrics as bad acid blues. The stories are all true tales of nastiness that make this big ol' world keep turning. Some are personal, some just caught my attention. "Man from another Place" is about the time I was separated from my girlfriend on a packed train when I lived in Tokyo. Something that looked just like MFAP (David Lynch character from "Twin Peaks") started threatening to molest her face to face, knowing I was there all the time (a fact I only found out as he left the train). I got to him as he left the train and broke my knuckles on his head when I hit him. Told the doctor I punched the ground when playing in goal at soccer. LOL. Er... the other songs are all similar tales to varying degrees of nastiness.

Hank: The lyrics are all about everyday weirdos and your more exceptional loons. They're supposed to add another level of brutalness that hopefully the songs convey. Craig writes ‘em, and I'm sure he'll pleasure you with the stories associated with each of ‘em at some point.


Hellride Music: Has the band had a chance to write anything new since, "Cattle"? It looks from your site that Tractor plays a decent deal of active gigs, so I'd imagine you'd have some unreleased that have only been played out live. How much material do you guys normally get to run through in a set?

Kunal: We have recently churned up some new numbers, but only given one an airing on a couple of occasions. We're not especially proficient musicians, so any gigs we have booked require practice, which means we don't get a chance to write new stuff in the run-up to gigs. We've been unlucky in spacing our gigs at a rate that means we minimize the amount of writing time we have. Having said that, there is some new stuff on the go and it's sounding exactly like all our other songs, so you should be happy at least. Our sets never usually top 30 minutes. 20-25 is the optimum I think, which gives us a chance to bust out 5 or 6 tunes.

Craig: We do 25 minutes usually. I timed all our stuff, planning that arena tour, and we could push nearly an hour

Hank: We are not the most prolific of writers, but yeah, there are some more songs more or less ready for recording, and some other basic ideas that need working on. No definite plans as to what we're gonna do with them yet, but Kunal has been working on getting a split 7" with Hey Colossus released, and then maybe another 3 or 4 track CD after that. Sets have always been about 25 minutes – 5 or 6 songs played with as little a gap between them as we 3 can do.

Hellride Music: Does a Tractor practice mimic the live set? Or is it more intricate? Do you just bash out songs in jam sessions or is there a lot of discussion involved? Or both? I'm getting carried away with the multiple questions within a question angle, aren't I? Haha.

Kunal: Our setup and songs are simple, so a practice resembles a live set pretty closely. When it comes to writing songs, they usually consist of one or two killer riffs in a conventional verse-chorus-verse arrangement. Everything is "discussed" (read: argued) about, usually between Craig and Hank, as some riffs we come up with aren't killer enough, or the general feel of a song isn't right. It varies - some songs we come up with on the spot (sometimes as Craig is tuning up at the start of a practice), some songs we agonize over for weeks at a time, varying the tempo, arrangements etc. Our slower numbers deal in atmospherics, which is harder to pull off (especially live) than a faster, harder-hitting song.

Craig: Mixture. Sometimes a jam, sometimes recorded riffs from home brought in, sometimes inspiration from listening back in the practice room. Discussion usually is an argument over what sounds shit / shitter of our ideas and what to get rid rather than include.

Hank: A Tractor practice… Get to the room late. Craig will tell us of some peculiar event that happened over the last week. A 15 – 20 minute jam (which sometimes produces a riff or two for a new song). Then depending on what needs to be done, it's either rehearsing a set for a gig or arguing about whether what we did the last time is any good or not. Intricacies don't come into it.


Hellride Music: Would you say that the rhythm section leads the charge when you're writing new music or the guitar? It seems like the guitar forms around all the rhythmic churning to create this skin peeling, claustrophobic feeling, but there's always a good chance I could be a bit off the mark.

Kunal: I think you've hit the nail on the head. Hardcore / noise-rock music really relies on a stable rhythmic base I think.

Craig: It's definitely all about the rhythm. I'm really a bass player who likes to keep the guitar as rhythmic as possible. I never come in and go "check this solo out, can we work something around it?" Just get into the rhythm and play how I feel, which means play close to the rhythm.

Hank: Sometimes, but not always. Writing songs is always a challenge, and is often a drawn out process for us. But yeah, so far I suppose we have been looking for a rhythm and then adding to that.


Hellride Music: Any plans of taking Tractor to international levels, like touring in the US, Japan or anywhere else? Have you gotten a chance to build up interest on a larger scale yet or are you still pretty much Bristol's hidden atomic weapons division?

Kunal: It would be wonderful (for us, maybe not the audience) to bring the noise to as many people as possible. Work and family commitments make it impossible to tour for weeks at a time, and I think we wouldn't want to do that anyway. We try and grab long weekends when we can. I think Ireland is next on the list. If anyone does want to bring us somewhere for a quick jaunt in a foreign land, please get in touch! Craig actually has some links in Japan as he lived over there for a number of years, so we might try and trick our way over there.

Craig: I lived in Tokyo and know a few people who could help us put on a gig. Hank's set on a tour of UK Shire Counties first, mind. I'd like to play in Europe. A few local bands have good stories, especially about Eastern Europe.

Hank: No plans. Work and family commitments hamper any plans for any extended time away, so this obviously limits what we can play. We will see. I don't know how much interest there is out there beyond the gigs we play. People seem to be getting into it at the moment, but it's all very parochial stuff. It's quite nice when at gigs in Bristol someone comes up and says stuff like, "You're in that band that played with whoever blah blah. When are you playing next?" They may of course be wanting to avoid us.


Hellride Music: Does the local scene see Tractor as triumphant anti-heroes or is all the noise a bit too much for Bristol? I'm not familiar with the music of that part of the UK too well off the top of my head. More than likely I'm drawing a blank on some good bands out of that area right now. Is Geisha from that area or elsewhere, I can't remember offhand? They're amazing regardless. Whatever the case it seems that there is a never ending supply of beautiful noise from the UK and I wondered if the local fans are rabid for new music to bash their senses in with.

Kunal: Bristol's a bit of an odd one. It's a very musical city, but more famous for its dance music and trip hop than guitar based music. There's also a lot of more experimental sort of "one man and his laptop" style noise outfits, all of which can be much of a muchness. Walrus have recently started playing gigs again, and make similarly middle-aged noise-rock, though in a lot more of an entertainingly rocky fashion. Geisha (www.MySpace.com/geishanoiseresearchgroup) are great, and although they play a very different style to us I'd consider them kindred spirits. Thread are a great lumbering concept sludge band, playing rolling, single-song 40 minute sets where the mood takes them, although I think they can't really be considered a Bristol band any more what with most of them being out of town (www.MySpace.com/threadest1999). Hunting Lodge (www.hunting-lodge.org) is now defunct but they did the whole heavy Scratch Acid meets Beefheart thing very well. Big Joan (www.bigjoan.com) has also been going years and do a real funky rhythmic sort of noisy punk. Gurkha stripped down to a trio and have gone more Motorhead. Warprayer (www.MySpace.com/warprayerpunk) feature Martin Einon, local crust legend and all-round good egg. Violent Arrest never play live but have records out on Deranged, home to Fucked Up, Career Suicide, Brutal Knights and more. There is quite a punk legacy here though. Ripcord was from Weston which is nearby, and then there's Amebix, The Subhumans, Dumbstruck, Chaos UK etc. There are also a lot of shit bands, but that's the same anywhere you go.

Craig: Bristol is still a chilled out soundscape. The Drum & Bass underground is popular. I think Bristol is open-minded about extreme music but with an artier vibe, as Kunal once said. I prefer Nottingham's genuine vibe for rock/industrial. Anywhere in the Midlands / North appreciates heavier music more generally I find.

Hank: We tout ourselves around the rather diverse Bristol music scene to get some interest in us, but we are not specific enough to fit nicely into the existing local incestuous circles, which is good. The local punkers are only interested in bands with the correct heritage. The indie lot are looking for musical abilities. The metallers wouldn't be interested because we ain't got long hair or a gothic font. We'll keep having a go at them though.


Hellride Music: Who are the local & regional favorites that Tractor likes emitting sonic frequencies with? Anyone that you haven't gotten a chance to play with yet that you would like to in the future? For some reason even though the sounds are different forms of sonic battery, I could see you guys playing some amazing shows with Red Stars Parade. Their approach isn't as blunt but it falls into the category of noisy rock for certain.

Kunal: First on the list would have to be Hey Colossus, who are similarly middle-aged grump-rockers who have kindly taken us under their wing. They dragged us up to Scotland (Hank's first time there!) with them and a lot of farting was done in the tour van on the excruciatingly long drives. We are planning a split 7" together which will be great (we will be anyway). End The Agony are a trio from Brighton that have seen us a couple of times and that we played with once - totally great Dystopia-esque dirging rock, now expanded to a trio for extra heaviness. We had the pleasure of playing with Monarch a couple of times when they toured the UK. I think they rub people up the wrong way because they're young, have a female singer and cartoonish artwork, so they therefore can't be troo kvlt doooom, but what the hell. The Death of Her Money are from south Wales and make some dead hypnotic Krautrock meets Neurosis vibes. Ack Ack Ack has also had the dubious honour of playing with us on a few occasions - totally cracking speedy jazzy gaskmask art-punk with the amazing drummer from Charlottefield. We play with all sorts really - I think it'd be good to be in the middle of a fast punk bill, just to level things out a bit, and probably piss people off in the process. Red Stars Parade I like a great deal. I think they definitely have a more modern sound - big slabs of cunningly complex riffs, really epic in feel. We sound positively (and deliberately) claustrophobic in comparison, but yeah I'd love to play with them one day.

Craig: I like playing with Thread, Geisha, Walrus from around here & Hey Colossus from London - good laughs as well as the music being good. I'd like to play with Sunn O))) and replace their robes with a dressing gowns and slippers image.

Hank: Big Joan for me. They're a bit different to the usual. A friend keeps saying early PIL. Good rhythms do it for me. As for future gigs, anything will be considered.


Hellride Music: What are the listening habits of your average Tractor denizen? Would there happen to be any Iron Monkey fans or followers of doom in general among you three noisemakers? I'm not saying that you guys sound like them at all, I just think they were hugely underrated.

Kunal: Iron Monkey was great. Highly derivative of course, and sometimes the simplicity of the music got stretched to breaking point in places, but when they got it right it was perfect. I wouldn't say they were underrated really - in the UK at least, they seem to have a strong following even now, years after Johnny Morrow's death, and I think they turned a lot of younger British metal fans onto that slower, sludgier style of stuff that the USA had been producing for a while, maybe thanks to the Earache link. I'm not sure if the other Tractorettes have heard them, but we do dig Bongzilla, an even more ridiculously derivative band who just crank out riffs endlessly, an approach we like to ape. The average Tractor fan probably can't afford a stereo.

Craig: Never heard Iron Monkey. I like a lot of music, now listening to High on Fire, Pissed Jeans, Complete Failure, Hot Snakes, Peeping Tom, Bongzilla and Ministry, soulsters The Dramatics (reading off my player). Like hip hop like early PE, Geto Boys, Wu Tang. Some other stuff like MC 900ft Jesus, ICP. Soul too - JBs, Mayfield ... I'm away. I've always liked the heaviness of the Melvins, Godflesh, Swans, Buttholes and guitars of early Sonic Youth, Helmet, Unsane, Silverfish. Repetition in music is good. Never really discovered Doom.

Hank: A bit of all sorts really. There's a blues fella called Junior Kimbrough that a friend has recently given me that's good. A bit of Circle from Finland is a good ‘un. A lot of stuff I get to hear is by going out and seeing bands. Bristol has got some good promoters so there is often something worth having a look at. So recently it's been Ministry, The Heads, Raw Power, Today Is The Day.


Hellride Music: In your downtime in the band. You know the rugged terrain of daily life, what are you guys like? If you were to spend a night on the town after the show do things get ugly? 20 shot benders and all of that craziness or are you all pretty laid back gentlemen?

Kunal: I am a perfectly respectable, reliably dull member of society, working as an aircraft designer (I am not making this up) during the day, and miniature record label mogul by night. Craig has to make the most of being on tour as he plays family man / English school teacher during normal working hours, so if you went out with post-gig, you would be destroyed. Hank has an alloment.

Craig: I work a busy job and have a kid at home to share looking after too. In extreme cases I'll be too tired to have a beer, in most others I'll take up your 20 shot bender option. Don't get out much. You gotta live your life, have great nights out... (get a few stories to sing about).

Hank: It's normal. I've got an office job, so that's Monday to Friday done. If there's a band to go and see I probably will. Weekends can be filled with football, driving round country lanes or chucking slugs from me lettuces. To me knowledge, I haven't been on a bender recently.


Hellride Music: At the end of the day what is important to all three of you with your music? You seem to have an uncompromising vision both musically and how you handle promotion. How does it all add up when you go to sleep at the end of the day?

Kunal: You've got to have fun at the end of the day. I think I'm a pretty relaxed fellow, so I don't feel the urge to use Tractor as a cathartic outlet, but there's no denying that making this much unrelenting noise is great fun.

Craig: I think I feel satisfied with our approach, I can't think of doing it any other way in my situation. Bottom line I s'pose is that we're in control of it and put out stuff we like playing, when we have the opportunity and on our terms. And we tell who we want to. No Myspace calculation / desperation for us. When we started we used to put on local bands and open up and from that we now get asked to play, which is good.

Hank: What's important to me is not to bother if I think if anyone else likes what we're doing. If it sounds like I'd hope a band to sound like, then that's it. Job done. I don't think we're into looking for glory or to ponce around. Here's what we do. That's it.


Hellride Music: Well, that's all I've got. Thanks a lot for taking the time out to do this interview. I hope that there is a long, continuing future for the band. I'm thankful that there are bands out there like Tractor that make music like you do and go about the so called business aspects of music with such class. The floor is yours for closing comments!

Kunal: Thanks for the questions and support! Hopefully one day we will play for you Jay, you are definitely our number one fan!


Craig: Thanks for the interview offer. I would prefer to do it face to face, its difficult typing answers, but I finally sorted it out. Shit's probably getting to the stage of Skype interviews soon - that's technology for ya. I think personally Tractor is a place I channel a lot into to burn off some steam. I like it when people tell us at a gig if they enjoyed it, but when it comes down to it I do it ‘cos I need to. It's my Anger Release Management. Oo-arr.

Hank: Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I think we've peaked.


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