Q. As Rescue Party is new to the American music scene, can you tell us a little bit about it?

GM: Rescue Party is Gerald Masters and Gareth Jones, we're songwriters and producers living in the uk.
GJ: We've been working on the Rescue Party project for about 15 months now. Before that, for around 3 years, we were working on producing and writing material for other acts and artists.

Q. When you develop an idea, how does it become a Rescue Party song?

GJ: When we work on an initial idea it develops an inner life and momentum. We live with it a while and let it tell us a about what it's going to be - something in it usually hints at a mood and with it comes a visual impression.
GM: Then we take those fragments, weave in a melody which often happens in parallel with a lyrical idea - the words sing the notes and the notes sing the words!

Q. You have a fascination with America, have you spent much time there?

GJ: I've spent a month or so over on the west coast, and then a longer period of time around New York and Philadelphia.
GM: I've done a fair bit of the States but I think if we'd actually lived in America then the potency of how we see the USA would alter the way we're expressing its imagery thru our songs. It's much better for us to look at it from the outside. See it colored by the things you export out of it, like films, art and music.
GJ: Rescue Party is about standing at a different viewpoint and so we see America as an even more intriguing and wonderful place.
GM: America's stories aren't really our stories, we're just seeing it from the other side of the mirror.
GJ: It's like peering back in thru the looking glass.

Q. Your press materials note that Rescue Party is not a touring band, What are your feelings in this regard

GM: I'm a composer who works in the studio, I love moulding musical fragments into complete sound-canvases. Just like a painter, my art is directly applied, I think I'd lose my real focus if I was performing - I'd miss the studio and the inspired environment that we've both developed.
GJ: Our musical home is in the studio, and I'd rather spend the time creating and considering new material. Our music is very one-to-one - we want people to sit down with it and go with the flow of the pathway we're presenting for them - its a journey that's best undertaken individually, rather than communally.

Q. What are your hopes for Rescue Party, is it more than just a group of songs?

GM: Well, we are currently involving a videographer and an artist who are augmenting our songs with their own personal visions. In some way, Rescue Party will tour, but it will do so as an 'event' in galleries, arthouses and multimedia centers..
GJ: It's all about collaboration and inspiration with other artists and artforms - taking the untypical as opposed to the predictable route! In some ways Rescue Party is just a catalyst for a much wider concept, we want to twist pop-art on its heels. Rescue Party is 'art-pop'!