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The ChartBlog view of things can be summarised in a very small amount of key points:

Key Point The First: Bands which use extra punctuation in their name - like Wham!, Hear'Say, B*Witched and Los Campesinos! - are ONLY brilliant if they also have a keen eye for pop music. You probably won't remember bands like S*M*A*S*H or Therapy? and there's a really good reason for that.

Key Point The Second: Being kind souls, ChartBlog would not wish being called 'the future of music' OR 'white kids trying to be street' on ANYONE. But Hadouken! are much more interesting a band than, say, the Twang.

That's it. Everything else happens on a song-by-song basis...

So, given ten minutes of interview time with Pilau, the band's ricey-but-nicey guitarist there hardly seemed any point preparing questions or anything clever like that. No, the only way to really get to the heart of a 'massive' controversy like Hadouken! is to just have a nice chat and see where you end up.

What I Expected: Well, it was a high-risk strategy, I'll admit. Thankfully Pilau's ability to recount his own fascinating past make up nonsense on the spot proved to be immensely useful.
What I Did Not Expect: A game of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire...the band's folk roots...finding out who puts the "ooh" in Hadouken!...

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Your ChartBlog interviewer was: Fraser M

The new single from Hadouken! is called 'Liquid Lives', it's grand, and it goes a little something like this...

And MySpace form...