Was the band's songwriting affected by not having a drummer? Did they find themselves using a different approach?

"I don't think it's dissimilar to how other people write their songs. We write our own parts. I write the lyrics and then we come together. It's a group thing and it's just kind of worked. We've been together two and a half years, we can write songs now quite well."

Were there any particular reasons for this chosen method of keeping a beat?

"When we started, we were particularly intrigued with dance music. We weren't dance kids by any stretch of the imagination. If we were into rock and roll, we were into punk. Then, as we got more bored with that we started listening to a lot of dance music and it was that that got us into the notion of working on specific drum sounds. We started pissing around on drum machines and slowly things evolved. Nowadays, there's a strange dance element because the songs are structured as we tried to break dance drum sounds and samples into conventional song writing. There's a concept behind the band, that in a sense relates to what I was saying a minute ago. Which, is about trying to comment on the very nature of a band or the very nature of being a person, for whatever reason who wants to make music, which has always struck me as odd. That's why we're called Performance. It isn't meant to allude to some kind of grand stage show. It's meant to be about reducing the notion of being in a band down to its core elements."

Which are individuals and their instruments.

"So it's not about glitz and glamour or blowing smoke up anyone's arse. It's the magic of what you're doing. Kind of just trying to be bare, stripped and then by so doing blow smoke up peoples arses and not think that they are great." >>