2007 According to The Enemy

Gigwise: Your honest views have earned you a bit of a reputation. Are there any regrets at all?
Tom: Why would anyone regret being honest? Getting straight to the point and cutting through the bullshit saves time and lets everyone know where you stand. The problem with bands now days is everyone's terrified of the N M fucking E, scared that the media won't accept them. What everyone needs to do is grow a set of bollocks, say what they're really thinking...and that goes for the media too, if there's anyone or anything to blame for setting shit trends that last two seconds before disappearing into obscurity it's the music press....new rave is here to save the world...oh no hang on a second it's dead....new rave never existed, it amounted to probably less than ten glossy pages in the press cuttings of 2007, people need to stop overthinking stuff....you either like stuff or you don't, it's that simple. So err......no.

Gigwise:  What do you hope to have achieved by this time next year?
Tom: Unaided unpowered human flight. Everyone's got to have something to aim for.

Gigwise: Name your favourite albums of the year. 
Tom: REV AND THE MAKERS. The State Of Things: Earlier this year when I first heard Heavyweight Champion of the World on the wireless, I was convinced that Ian Brown and Pulp's bastard child had been unleashed for the masses to dance, drink and screw to. Then a large speech bubble screaming "Fuck Bush Fuck Blair"  from the megaphone mouth of front man Jon McClure in a page of the New Musical Express  got me all excited at the prospect of a working class band with something to say other than "red light indicates doors are secured." On a drizzly afternoon through the speakers of a van sat in yet another unexplained traffic jam on the M6 I listened to The State of Things in its entirety. Then I listened to it again a bit louder. It's not just Heavy Weight Champion of The World, or He said he loved me, the singles are there and they're bangers undoubtedly, but the rest of the album is packed with lyrics that relate directly to the normal, 206 driving, kebab eating, trainer wearing Oasis loving millions of common people. Pulp's woodchip on the walls has been replaced by cheap Ikea furniture but the mams and prams and leccy bills and all the other everyday shit that millions of normal people all across the country can relate to is there, conveniently combined with some massive choruses and club classic beats......it's just fucking class. Anyway, we were trying to think of two more albums that came close this year, and frankly we can't. I suggest that you use the time you would have spent reading another two paragraphs to go out and buy the Rev album.

Gigwise: Are there any bands/artists who you predict great things for in 2007?
Tom: Bands that are certainly worth checking from bits and bobs that I’ve heard are.... Lowlife. Jersey Bud. Sergent. Harrisons and Exit Calm.

Gigwise: Have you got any ideas for your New Year resolution?
Tom: I'm trying to cut down on Kebabs.....Doherty hasn't got a patch on my donner addiction.