The current line up (ie those responsible for the "Colour Sound & Vibration " CD) has been together for just over 1 year, however it is on the verge of breaking up. This is not however an uncommon thing as I think Erase Today sometimes functions pretty much like a rehabilitation centre for musicians, who tend to stay for a while then go off in another direction. This in itself is not a bad thing, because it always ensures new ideas are coming in, but it does present a problem when you begin to entertain ideas like touring, recording etc. I guess one of the eternal truths I have learnt from my musical endeavours is that musicians are not the most adept and efficiently disposed creatures to crawl on the face of this planet. Please note the term "musicians" is open to interpretation, and in my opinion I do not readily count myself as a member of this group. In terms of the longevity of the band I dread to think...probably too long !! I am currently working with Alan (bassist) and a new drummer (Spig), but as to what is around the corner I dread to think...so I never look upon anything in music as permanent. Especially when it comes to Erase Today.

I think you must be referring to the Erase Today stickers.. The phenomenon of "the ubiquitous Erase Today sticker" became a bit of a cult thing following a report in the local newspaper, the Blackpool Evening Gazette. The newspaper article carried a picture of the band and was headed up "Band stickers bring chaos to Town Centre". Apparently after a spate of local gigs, where we gave out loads of free stickers, people were sticking them all over Blackpool town centre on traffic signs, litter bins, lampposts etc The "stickering spree" became "worthy" of local news coverage when people were getting let off with parking fines because the no parking signs were adorned with Erase Today stickers...people naturally assuming they could park as parking restrictions had apparently been "Erased Today"!!! ... yeah I bet. As people thought this was great fun things escalated and everything in the town centre worthy of a sticker got one !! This resulted in a series of letters from the local council threatening legal action against the band and record label. I have been receiving these letters ever since !! The last one I received was on Sept. 19 1997 (copy to follow) threatening legal proceedings under a sub-section of the Highways Act. I do think it's a little strong to equate a few small stickers on lampposts with flyposting. One spin off of this has been other local bands printing up their own stickers and proudly displaying them around the town centre .. it adds a bit of character to the town entire in my opinion.

Yeah we're working on the 10th release at the moment a CD compilation of local bands. In terms of.. how it's doing.. it has been successful in helping bands get recognition and airplay, but that's been after a lot of expense and hard work. At the moment we're having problems with our distributor going pretty lukewarm on our releases so we're searching for assistance from distro's that want to help us because they like what we're about and what we're doing. I hate to think of the number of small distro's that have taken stock and moved address/disappeared without trace ... at our expense. I like a lot of the records for different reasons. I love the immediacy of the Four Letter Word 7",the sheer brilliance of the first Hooton 3 Car 12" (which we helped with, rather than released),and the Travis Cut 7" is great aswell, especially the B-side...not to mention the Erase Today "Colour, Sound & Vibration" CD. The label is not full time affair but it does take a lot of my time.. having said that I think it's time well spent.

I am pleased with the CD because I think it's varied and interesting to listen to, also the sound production is good. The packaging and CD design are also quite good, so overall I think it's quite a good product. The initial response has been amazing, really positive which is great. I’m pleased people like it because I can empathise strongly with that feeling I get when I get a new record I really like. Ironically the only people that aren't keen are the distributors.. I suspect that this decision is based more on commercial reasons than honesty. Still that's life.

The subject matter covered on the album is pretty diverse, and I always make a point of printing all the lyrics on our releases so people can get a handle on what the songs are about. I'm always keen to know what people are singing about and I love reading lyrics on record/CD sleeves. I am sure there must be plenty of other people out there like me so those interested in the CD may like a brief run down of what the tracks are about.. so here goes:

1.Feels Like Rain - Awareness spreading throughout the human race, as we work out what life is really all about.

2.Rock n Roll - The "industry" as we broadly refer to the music establishment. The fact that it's based largely on commerce rather than what is really important about music, ie that special thing that touches your soul and gives life meaning.. as Nietzche said "Life without music would be a mistake". Can you spot the veiled references to that loveable combination of Jello & Tipper ??

3.A Big Yes and A Little No - Area 51, Majestic 12,D-Notices,Bill Holden, Lockheed Skunkworks, the Greylings, Eisenhower in '53,Roswell, and what a lot of intelligent well informed people broadly refer to as the UFO cover up.

4.Where Angels Tread - People not seeing things the same way as you do, and therefore assuming you have a problem about things Largely the youthful yearning to want to change the world, that people look upon as a phase...not for all of us I guess ?

5.London New York the World - The NME, making it in the music business etc.

6.Seventh Son - A reaction to the "Countryside Lobby" and their beliefs.

7.Managing Director of Earth plc - Based on a book called "Keepers of the Garden" written by Dolores Cannon and published by Gateway Books, The Hollies, Wellow, Bath, BA2 8QJ . I think this has been the most influential book I have ever read and I can't recommend it highly enough.

8.Watch the East - Taking care of your own space, and keeping your eye on yourself rather than other people.

9.What's the Score - Relationships ,frustration ,disbelief ,resignation etc.

10.When They Come - Again we're back to Chapter 11 of "Keepers of the Garden", it has to be read to be believed.

11.I am the Greatest - Taking liberties of a person's sexuality because you can, and thinking it's cool. Bragging about it. Being selfish.

12.Battery - Violence, a group/football situation. The futility of exorcising all that male testosterone and with hindsight being torn between regretting it and looking upon it as a stage of self development.

13.Waterworld - Kevin Costner's turkey.

14.She..the Eclipse - My girlfriend.

Great question by the way... Let's start with the records.

• CURSE OF ZOUNDZ - ZOUNDZ

After hearing Can't Cheat Karma / Subvert on the John Peel show a pal and I wrote a letter and managed to procure a f.o.c. copy courtesy of Mr. Peel. This signalled the start of my love affair with the writings and songs of Lake, Wood and Portar.

At that time I was still at school and strapped for cash so I would write a Christmas record list in about October in preparation for the impending "death by vinyl" extravaganza of baby Jesus' birthday on the glorious 25^th December. Needless to say the above album was number one on Father Christmas' list, so I was a happy male when I opened it on Xmas day.

I always approach the playing of a new item with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation, as so many "great" records I have hunted for have turned out to be a big disappointment. So when the needle hit the black and I heard the intro to FEAR whilst reading the lyric cover I thought I was onto a winner, and by jove I was. My enduring memory of that day was playing the LP from start to finish , over and over again. I remember sitting by myself late into the night scrutinising the lyrics and songs , whilst all my friends and family celebrated Xmas , but I knew this record was a whole lot more important.

It's seems sad to say but when I actually witnessed Zounds at the Winter Gardens gig in Blackpool in Summer '96 , all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I felt choked as they played Subvert , Dancing etc.

The next record to rock my world came about courtesy of a chance meeting with a guy I then hardly knew down in London.

• WAREHOUSE SONGS… - HUSKER DU

I was visiting London on a school trip and needless to say I irritated all my friends by insisting we spend our free time hunting around record shops rather than clothes shops. Towards the end of the day I bumped into a guy I recognised from gigs in Preston and he too was clutching a bag of vinyl accompanied by a group of friends. It didn't occur to me at the time but he was down on a similar excursion from his school in Blackpool, however we stopped and chatted about our new purchases.

I was quite happy with my newly acquired collection of Black Flag , Demob , Threats 7"'s and 12"'s etc. however I was intrigued by his reference to a record he had bought by an American band called Husker Du (In a Free Land), which I hadn't heard of. Being the inquisitive type I decided to check out the band and from the day when I got a copy of New Day Rising and I was hooked.

All the albums by this band inspired me greatly. I find it hard to select one in particular ,as they all offer their own varied beauty. I select Warehouse (just in front of Flip Your Wig and Zen Arcade), because it's so varied and was an unusual and unpredictable chapter of an amazingly unusual band. I must confess the Bob Mould tracks are all pretty spectacular on this album.

It's weird but I can remember buying this record from Piccadilly Records in Manchester on a Friday afternoon, and sitting in St Peter's library reading all the lyrics as my train was not scheduled for a few hours.

Strangely enough as well I actually wrote a long letter that weekend to my mate then living in Wolverhampton (remember the one I had met years earlier in London who had first mentioned Husker Du to me) with my views on the best tracks on the album. Quirky eh??

Now to choose another is difficult my mind is full of stuff old new and varied, from the likes of Naked Raygun, Squirrel Bait, Hooton 3 Car, Slade, 10,000 Maniacs, SLF, Ruts, Subhumans, Nirvana, Clash, Bluetip , Superchunk etc. however on this occasion I choose to return across the Atlantic

• MUSH - LEATHERFACE

This album cuts deep and it's purchase was a direct result of hearing the amazing "Not Superstitious". Other great tracks are Sunshine , I Want the Moon and Bowl of Flies.

I was so impressed I felt they had to play in my small provincial town so we worked hard put them on at the Tache in Blackpool, and it was by far the most successful show we put on at that time. The band and the sound guy were all good lads, and the evening went well , as opposed to some unmitigated disasters we staged around then.

This is one of those I will never tire of hearing. Great depth in the sound and lyrics always throw up new things to please the ear and mind each time it dons the deck.

Their hometown is also responsible for the amazing Hooton 3 Car , must be something in the air as opposed to the "Dark Satanic Mills" of my home county.

In terms of books my selection would probably be

• "Keepers of the Garden" - Dolores Cannon
• "England’s Dreaming" - Jon Savage
• "American Psycho" - Brett Easton Ellis

Can I answer this some other time as I am currently working my way through a massive pile of titles, so this may change … oh there's Alien Liaisons by Timothy Good too.

Arthur C. Clarke said "today's science is by definition yesterday's magic". Just imagine your great - great grandfather watching a TV set. He would be convinced there were small people inside it.

Things of a wider dimension (ie space travel , time travel , UFO visitors) which have always received a lot of criticism and debunking , do finally seem to becoming a lot more acceptable as a result of countless encounters by intelligent , sound minded members of the human race.

About 80% of the UK population believe in extra terrestrial life, I have always found it difficult to understand how people could not believe. As the earth is a drop in the ocean of our small corner of the galaxy even pure mathematical probability dictates there must be more.

I believe a good scientist questions and seeks the truth, a liberal scientist if you will. This world has a fixed mindset that if science can't prove it , it does not exist - how crass can you get. Look at chaos theory for example, science cannot explain how it works but knows it does. The same goes for dowsing and water dividing , and the more broad minded would cite astrology as the most ancient science known to man (you know those gods sat on Mount Olympus) as the chief target for debunking. Isn't it sad that the scientific world sees the world as a product of their scientific mindset, rather than vice versa - talk about looking down the wrong end of the telescope!!

I am an avid consumer of UFO related material. I feel there is more than this (so you could call me a believer), and one of the chief reasons for me sticking around on the earth is the chance of alien interaction. It's a toss up between death (another great adventure) and sticking around.

Kevin Greening and UFO debunkers.

Not really I'm pretty much Microsoft Worded out . Thanks to anyone who reads these words, and I hope you enjoyed them, I've just borrowed them for a short period of time. Thanks to Rick and this excellent publication.