So you thought Royal Trux were a pair of strung-out rock 'n' roll junkies? Wise up. From their remote Virginia ranch, avant garage's First Couple are astutely playing the media and the stock market. Words: Louise Gray. This article originally appeared in The Wire 171 (May 1998).

It has take Mick Karn over ten years to emerge from the manicured electro pop of Japan into the hi-tech world fusion of Bestial Cluster. He tells Louise Gray what a difference a decade makes. This article first appeared in The Wire 122 (April 1994).

Read an unedited transcript of Louise Gray's interview with Chicks On Speed, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 4–5 June, 2010.