Sleaze Roxx has issued an interview with guitarist Jay Pepper and singer Kim Hooker of Welsh rockers TIGERTAILZ. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Tigertailz have been credited as being one of the definitive British glam metal acts. Is this something you still identify with?

Kim Hooker: "I never did identify with it, to be honest. I always thought we were just a heavy metal band. Our influences growing up were the likes of JUDAS PRIEST, ACCEPT and BLACK SABBATH. That's what I listened to, and that's what I still listen to."

Jay Pepper: "It's understandable that people will always identify with your image and pigeonhole you before they've even heard a note of your music. Luckily, this time round, I think we're changing people's perceptions of us. For example, we played Hard Rock Hell (in Prestatyn, Wales) three years in a row because people wanted to see us."

Kim Hooker: "When it comes to image, I just couldn't imagine being in a band and going on-stage at night looking exactly the same as I did when I arrived in the afternoon. There's nothing in that for me at all. Even bands like METALLICA have an image - they just have a different image from us. We've never considered not getting dressed up before a gig, and we never will."

Jay Pepper: "Yeah, it's entertainment! It's a theatric. When you go to see a show you don't expect to see people in jeans and t-shirts. A lot of fantastic bands do dress like that, but our deal is that you get a show - like it or not."

Read the complete interview at this location.