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I saw them at the Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts, I tracked them down on the net, joined their social networking pages and watched them grow. I love their energy, the passion and the vibe that the band emit whether listening to their work through my headphones, my speakers or seeing the band perform live.

Seeing the progression from this side of the fence is one thing but to able to see the efforts and anguish first hand is another. That’s why we watch documentaries on the box. To catch a glimpse of the real-life tribulations of the base topic. To feel the joy and watch the occasional horrors of the adventure of our TV heroes. Subsource have actually done that very documentary on film and I talked to Stu Henshall, the lead vocalist and mohawked double-bass player of the band to get the up-to-date lowdown on “Subsource: A Dubumentary”:

How’s it all going at the moment?

It’s going really well at the moment cheers. This year has already been a rollercoaster and doesn’t look like any sign of a rest bite yet. In the studio at the moment working on the follow-up to Tales From The Doombox and it’s sounding so live and heavy we’re all rubbing our hands like evil geniuses. We’re definitely not geniuses but this is definitely our darkest work to date. Mwah hahahaha!

How’s the feedback been from the album release?

TFTD was our debut album, both as a band and also for our label. We had very little money so we’re pretty hyped at the response we got in the press and taking it out live. We’re constantly evolving and when the record was finally released we were all a bit tired from the process so getting the reviews really helped give us a bit of a boost. We were touring it all last year and now it’s time to get the next instalment done.

This “dubumentary” that you guys have made, did you set out to make a movie of your exploits or was the initial intention just make a short film as some touring bands do? How did it all come about?

We didn’t make the movie. We were approached by Surgery Productions who had put out some great work, and the main man Colin Arnold is an absolute legend. He directed our two single videos for Doombox, and said he’d like to come on the road and seeing what happened. As it turned out, it was a pretty eventful year and it’s all there in the film.

Travelling several countries with a camera filming yourselves and all of your equipment within it, were tempers lost at all and do we see those on film?

You see it all. We lay it all out there. I can’t give too much away, but there are some pretty tense moments. It’s going to happen when six guys are stuck in the van travelling thousands of miles together.

Is it the Van del Diablo? Is the van still ticking?

Again it’s all in the film. She’s the star. Let’s just say, there is a happy ending on that front, but not on all others.

What exposure are you looking to achieve from this or is it more a bit of fun? You have families now so the bills need to be paid.

For us, when it came to seeing the edit and making comments, we were all of the opinion that this isn’t a promo piece, it’s a reflection of how the time we spent together went down, so not to trim the bad the shit out but represent it fully.

What happens after the Dubumentary? What’s next?

A week after the Dubumentary we are flying out to China for a mini tour, and then when we get back we’ve got the festival season starting with us hitting the European festivals more, getting this record released, and then we have a full European tour in the Autumn.

When can “We” the public watch the film and how?

The screening will be on Thursday 21st April 2011 at the Odeon Guildford at 7pm, and then we have a show at The Boileroom after. The film will then be touring the Film festival circuit, and then DVD. Get on the Subsource Facebook. All will be revealed.

Tickets to see Subsource: A Dubumentary are available from wegottickets.co.uk and their album Tales From The Doombox is available now.