Zia from the Dandy Warhols, sitting by a phone, answering stupid questions in a bid to promote the forthcoming album Thirteen tales... So, come on, get to know her a bit better... First gig you went to? I lived in the country so didn't get much chance a band at the fair. Steppenwolf or 3 Dog Night. A friend at school got tickets and made me go to see Nelson the Nelson brothers, sons of somebody Nelson ...not Willie Nelson... The rest of the band have really cool ones, Cheap Trix and Duran Duran, but they lived in the city. First record you bought? My parents had 200 records when I was in College my boyfriend recorded Wham!'s Make It Big for me, that was my first that was MY record, the first I bought were the first two Guns and Roses records I loved Guns and Roses.Still do. And do you still love Wham? I do ­ I have aside project, rev. with my boyfriend. He Djs, and I play keyboards over the top, then at the end of the night I bring down this box with 70's and 80's records in and play Wham, and everybody loves it I want your sex was the first time I ever got turned on. I remember wathcing it and going 'What IS this strange feeling' You should ask people that, 'what was the first song that turned you on?" Whats your most embarrassing record? I have some bad ones Telco, Putting on the ritz. I played it the other day, and man, it's bad. It was one of my mother's, I didn't buy it. Worst hairstyle? Oh, man, a lot of bad ones. Did you have those curled bangs brushed back by hairspray? I lived in a small place, and when you live in small places you have no role models, so if you look different you're always going to end up looking like a retard ­ original, but not attractive. So I had long bangs curled straight up, with the hairspray on it, and then I put on the tongs ­the smell of sizzling hair with the bob behind it terrible, terrible If you had a gun, who should be worried? People that are shooting. So I'd only be adding to the problem. No, I wouldn't do it. Whats your favourite fantasy? I have all kinds. I'm trying to think of one that's not too naughty... Oh yeah, we win some award, I'm there in the gown, and everyone's in tuxes, and I trip and start this slapstick chain ­ I pull courtney's pants down, and he falls over, the microphone comes down it's the only way to have something interesting to say at these things. But it would be very hard to orchestrate something like that, without it looking fake but I fantasise about that... a lot. What cartoon character do you most identify with, and why? Everyone else answers that for me Thelma, from Scooby Doo glasses, hair, a left brain in a right brain world Or Josie form Josie and the Pussycats. She's got the tambourine, and she's a haughty cat. - Zia was talking to Simon Budgen You can find out about the biggest misconceptions about the Dandy Warhols, the band that think's they're their rivals, and more over on Liverpool Hoopla