bidbf[s sdfdsf: Who does the most work between you two?
Oxide: It varies. I have to do more work in the studio but Neutrino does more on stage, while I hide behind the DJ box.

Greg Ivanov: How did you come up with the name "Oxide and Neutrino"?
Neutrino: I wanted to be original as there were a lot of MC's. I was good at science at school, so I chose Neutrino.
Oxide: We didn't know each other at the time we chose our names, but I chose it for originality too.

Liz Shah: How and when did you two first start out?
Neutrino: We started three years ago on a pirate radio station. We had separate shows. We were based in Brixton, South London.

Gem: What was 'Up Middle Finger' about?
Neutrino: Because of the lack of the support from the 'Casualty' track, I felt I had to express myself. It wasn't directed at anyone specifically, it was just how I felt about everything.

Dean Gabriel: How long did it take you to make 'Execute'?
Oxide: It was ongoing from June 1999. That's when we first made 'Bound For Da Reload'.
Neutrino: Some tracks can take a day to make, and some a week.
Oxide: My favourite track on the album is either 'Sitting On the Pace' or 'Remmie On the Floor'.

Si Davis: You are the boys! Are you hooking up with any American artists in the future?
Neutrino: We're going to be doing something with Missy, hopefully. I want to do lots with the rap artists. We want to work on the UK thing, and then move over to the US and see if we can do the same over there.
Oxide: We've done a remix for Missy's next single, and she likes our stuff so we're really looking forward to that.

Leonie: Got any tips for a young DJ?
Oxide: Definitely practice. The first thing is to try and get into pirate radio or something, so you can get yourself known. Also, try to make tracks.
Neutrino: Try to push yourself all the time. We used to go into clubs, pinch the mic off the MC, and take over, at age sixteen. That is the thing you had to do to get noticed. You've just got to start at the bottom, but you have to start somewhere.

Maria: How did it come about that your song 'Devils Nightmare' (which is great) featured on the soundtrack to Lara Croft?
Oxide: We made the track and it's something that East West records cooked up for us.
Neutrino: It's also on the Ericcson advert. The track was made before the film, it wasn't made for the film. We didn't get to see the film before.

Joe: What is your relationship with the So Solid Crew?
Neutrino: That's our crew. We're all part of the same crew, but we branch off and do certain things sometimes. At the end of the day we're all part of the crew. We were a duo before we were part of the So Solid Crew.
Oxide: When we see two So Solid Crew things in the Top Ten we just laugh.
Neutrino: For 21 Seconds we didn't appear in the video - we missed out as we were elsewhere in the country at the time they were making it. We tried rapping it down the mobile phone, but it didn't sound very good! I did have a chance to go and do vocals on the track, but I changed my mind and had some food instead! It's really difficult to appear on a lot of their stuff as they're busy and I'm busy, but we do appear on a couple of tracks on the album.

George Dean: How long do think garage will last? I think it's just a phase.
Neutrino: I don't think it's a phase because there's so much that's entered the charts and they're still getting in the Top Ten and Top Five.
Oxide: There's a wide variety so it appeals to a lot of people.
Neutrino: There's so many different styles of garage music that I think it will last.
Oxide: Our music is dark, with an MC and rappers.

Andrea Hodge: Who has inspired you the most?
Oxide: Wookie, Hype, they are the producers I like. Dr Dre and hip-hop and stuff as well, a lot of jungle. These type of lyrics are developing more in garage. I like EZ - basically all the people from my crew. Those people are doing the same type of thing as I'm doing - we all tend to feed off each other.

Jennim: Are you planning to tour this year?
Oxide: We have got lots of things coming up. We're in and out of the country. We're hoping to set up a college/Uni gig in September/October. I like to be DJ'ing as that's what I came into it to do. Jam In The Park was good. Sometimes smaller crowds are harder. With a big crowd they're further away.

Garage Boy: You've had a lot of success at such a young age- were you doing your music even when you were at school?
Oxide: I've just turned 19. At school I used to play piano, drums, keyboard. I used to pick them up and teach myself. I think of tunes in my head and play them from that. I was encouraged at school. I used to drum with a hip-hop type singer. Things like Maths I didn't want to learn, but music and art I enjoyed so I enjoyed doing them.

DJ: How did you get your first pair of decks?
Oxide: A lot of saving. I had some rubbish decks which cost me £150 from a second hand shop. I got good on them but it gets harder, so I had to save up for better decks that they use in clubs and stuff.

Saba Bukhari: What have you got in your CD player right now?
Oxide: Dr Dre 2001, D-12 - they're mad! Snoop Dog's album and Usher's new one as well. I like some of his tunes - I skip the R'n'B sounding tracks though!

Simon: How has life changed for you since releasing the first record?
Oxide: I haven't got a minute to myself. Really busy. If I get any time free, it will be flying to Ayia Napa and stuff. I try to see old friends but I see them a lot less now. If I get a day off, I sleep all day.

Jo: Did you ever think you would become as successful as you are now?
Oxide: No. It's always a dream and when you're making tunes you're always hoping that they'll reach Number 1. It felt like it built up very quickly. It was a slow process though.
Neutrino: People ask for autographs if you're walking down the street and you forget sometimes. We don't mind that though. Ayia Napa we must have smiled for about a million pictures!

Limey: What was the idea behind your version of Prodigy's 'No Good For Me', and are there any other songs that you would really like to re-record or do live in your own style?
Oxide: Any new ideas are secret. With No Good For Me, I liked the keyboard riff so I played that in and built up the tine in that key. I put a hook and vocal in, then just put the track together.
Neutrino: It's an introduction into garage, so if you use something that you know already, it helps as they'll recognise that but we're leading them into our style. Everything else on the album is new stuff though.

Sam: What was the shooting incident all about?
Neutrino: No comment.

Marcos Sharry: Is Lady Dynamite in So Solid Crew?
Neutrino: She's featured on a couple of tracks but she's not part of So Solid Crew. She was at our night in Ayia Napa. We're all friends, but there are a lot of garage people who tend to hang around in groups. In London it's lots of Crews, but outside London it's not like that.

Pob: Who are the acts around at the moment that you admire the most?
Neutrino: I don't really follow music. We just do our own stuff. I admire up and coming talent, and people trying to break through. I think we're the same as we were at the start. I don't think anyone can change us.

Shak: Do you have any tattoos?
Neutrino: I've got five - 'Neutrino' on my chest, Chinese symbols on my left arm, and a So Solid logo on my right arm.
Oxide: I've got none!
Neutrino: It's painful when you have ones on the chest, or on your back. The tattooist didn't think I could take the pain!

Joey: Are you guys single?
Neutrino: Yes. We love all girls.

Priya V: What has been the best moment of your career so far?
Neutrino: Achieving a Number One single. I was in bed when I found out. People spend nearly their whole lives trying to achieve that and we have - it was great.

miss usherraymond: Who is the worst celebrity you have met?
Neutrino: We haven't really met a lot of celebrities, we haven't been to the celeb parties. Those type of events are boring, we have to liven them up. We try and avoid them. The last one I went to was the Tomb Raider after show party, which we livened up. We went to the LA premiere and the UK premiere, and still didn't get to meet Angelina Jolie! We watched the film and I fell asleep half way through! It's not my type of film.
Oxide: I was trying to pay attention to the film to hear our song. I didn't catch it though!

Emma Baines: So what do you guys do for fun, any favourite clubs?
Neutrino: We have fun on the road. Coming back from the airport yesterday, we were racing trolleys which was fun! The fun goes as its always work, work, work now.
Oxide: We might get our friends to a gig and get drunk afterwards. We played at Club Ice in Ayia Napa, which was good.

Alisha Kang: What kind of films are you into, and what are your favourites?
Neutrino: The Matrix is my favourite film.
Oxide: I haven't really got a favourite, but anything with action in it - nothing boring that I can fall asleep through!
Neutrino: I use my laptop to watch films and stuff.

Lady: Where do you see yourselves in 10 years?
Oxide: In my swimming pool in my big house!
Neutrino: Hopefully producing or managing other groups.

Pip: Is it true that Neutrino used to work at McDonalds in Camberwell?
Neutrino: No, Clapham.
Oxide: I worked in a hairdressers, cleaning, to save up money to buy decks.
Neutrino: I was doing up and coming stuff in underground clubs, which I got some income from too. McDonald's was before that though.
Oxide: I wasn't happy as I didn't enjoy it, and I didn't get paid very well, but you have to focus on your goal and then it makes it easier. If all this didn't happen, I don't want to think about what I would be doing now. If it's something you don't enjoy, you don't put in the effort.
Neutrino: I was working in a warehouse and the boss was really out of order with people. When it came to her speaking to me like that, I started answering back to her and I got fired. I still go back to McDonalds, look at the managers and laugh!
Oxide: I still get the guy at the hairdressers to cut my hair.
Neutrino: I went back to my old school, Chestnut Grove in Balham, and all the kids went mad.
Oxide: They (my school) were convinced I wouldn't make it, but now I go back and tell them all the things we've been up to, and they think it's good.

Charlie: What's your favourite food and ideal woman?
Oxide: I haven't got an ideal woman. My favourite food is chicken.
Neutrino: Mine is pizza. Women are women - I'm not fussy.

MasterB: What mobile phones have you two got?
Neutrino: 6210's, both of us. We've got little Motorola ones, 3210 and 7210's as well. Play lots of games too. My ring tone is mixed garage tunes. Oxide: I've got a couple of ring tones that I've made on my phone (Oxide plays them on his phone now). I do make some tunes that are completely mad. Keeps me busy while I'm sitting in cars on journeys.

dj4: When's your next single coming out?
Neutrino: 'Devil's Nightmare' is out late July. After that we're going to work on a new single, but we don't know what that will be yet.
Oxide: (on working on new material) Neutrino works out the lyrics, I put a drum beat together and get inspiration from different things and gradually build it up with the lyrics. Neutrino then comes in and we work out the finished thing together.

Pete: Don't you think you sold out using the Casualty riff?
Neutrino: We were young (16 years old) and we didn't know anything about garage, and we just decided to make a track. The main point when people start in the garage scene is to get where we are- in the charts. People that want to stay in the underground can't do any better so they'll stay where they are.
Oxide: We're taking things as they come now. We're not doing it for the money, we're doing it because we're enjoying it.

dj blaxill: What do you think of people getting free songs of yours from the net on MP3? Do you agree with it?
Neutrino: It's alright because when I need to find a song, I go there. It's cool as long as it doesn't go too mad when everyone's got an MP3 player, because when a single comes out, groups would lose money.
Oxide: It could get to stage when everyone will be buying all their music on the internet.
Neutrino: A lot of the stuff you do download isn't very good quality. That's why we change extra tracks on single and stuff, so that it's different to anything people have got before. We're running a competition on our web site to get an MC to do stuff on our tracks, so go and have a look.

Jilna: What was the first record you bought?
Oxide: Some drum and bass records. My brother bought them for me as it was my birthday.
Neutrino: Michael Jackson's Bad album.