Tim Hoey of Cut Copy
What's on your rider?Sleep.
What would be on your fantasy rider?World champion barista with the finest beans from the world over.
What's your pre-gig ritual/ routine?Yoga, watching reruns of Seinfeld.
What's the best gig you've been to?Fugazi, Lismore RSL club. There were about 30 people there (including Mitchell, our drummer), yet they threw down like there were 3,000 people. I permanently damaged my hearing.
And the worst?Mike Love's Beach Boys Experience.
What are your favourite and least favourite venues?Favourite: an old castle in Columbia. Least favourite: Creamfields Liverpool.
Who is the most famous person to have shown up at one of your gigs?Theo Huxtable.
Most embarrassing on-stage moment?Tearing a hole in my pants – not once, not twice, but thrice.
What's the most you've ever paid for a gig ticket?$150 to see Mike Love's Beach Boys Experience.
Chatting between songs – good or bad?Me, personally, no. But I like really charismatic frontmen who have the ability to engage with a crowd that way. Dan is good at that.
Groupies. Would you?I'm the biggest groupie of them all. I once hugged My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields when he stepped into the same elevator I was in. Safe to say the next 13 floors down were awkward – especially when the elevator stopped at every floor on its descent.
Any useful stage tips?Tune your guitar.
What's the worst thing ever thrown at you?Dan had an oversized novelty brassiere thrown at him the other night in Asheville, although I can't say if he actually hated it.
If you could be in any other band, which one?Mike Love's Beach Boys Experience.
Who's invited to your aftershow party?Anyone but me. I prefer to be back at the hotel, in a robe, watching Seinfeld.
What's your best tour story?We recently played in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The venue was one of the five the Sex Pistols played on their ill-fated tour of the US. Okay, it's probably not our best tour story, but it certainly is our most current one.
In conversation with TONY CLAYTON-LEA.Cut Copy play the Button Factory, Dublin on Tuesday
