"Basically, when it came to signing the deal we could be offered a certain amount of money as an incentive to sign but the more money you're offered the less rights you have over your own material. So the best thing to do is take the least amount of possible to have more control and that's basically what we did. We looked at exactly how much we needed, rather than how much we wanted. The first thing we did was meet our lawyer and we worked out how much we would need to exist on for at least a year. We asked for that and only that."

Would Tiny consider recording a song for an advert? That could possibly get the band more money and also a high charting single?

"We did do a song for an advert. We did the Beatles' 'Getting Better'. We were given a premise. It's actually nice to work from a premise. You start from that point and the points go further and further into whatever it is that you do. The premise was that it had to be upbeat, positive and not contain the line 'It can't get much worse'."

That pretty much massacres the whole idea of the song.

"Exactly but the point was whatever the song we're working on be it our own or someone else's, we take it right back down, start again and decide what it really means to us. 'Getting Better' obviously had that whole idea of being really positive and bubbly. The fact is that really it's all bullshit, you know. We sought of went down that alleyway and therefore it didn't get put on the advert."

You couldn't release 'Stay Young' for Peugeot, could you?

"It's really difficult that because if Levis wanted to use a bit of 'Stay Young', like a bit of a riff or something. Now, when it's only been released it's not so bad. They have a tendency to take the best part out of a song. It can work really well for a band. I'd have to meet them and see if they were genuine or not." >>