Are you going to continue playing? I hear you and Steve Mason are
forming a new band together. Hopefully with a better name than The
Tears.

MAtt James: writing a new thing. We haven't released new Gene
material since 2001 so you can imagine how crammed our heads are
with music ideas. Waiting around in this industry is so fucking
dull! Now I don't have to and I feel like a pressure valve has been
released. We'll see what happens next year.

Can we expect a new direction from you guys?

Matt James: Yes, it is different. However it's still rock music. And
I don't like metal (bar early Sabbath) so it's bound to be more on
the melodic side! The fact that it's us writing will undoubtedly
show the odd similarity. Harder than Gene I would say.


the whole interview can be found here:

http://www.playlouder.com/feature/+sleepwelltonight/