Have you ever chewed a glowstick? Have you ever used a dragon punch in a school fight? Well read on – you are not alone. We grab a few words with Hadouken! Who grab this issues video of the month, and a bag of random questions - lucky bastards…

Back in school a kid once claimed to have done a real fireball after practicing in his room for a weekend. Have you ever used any moves from Street Fighter 2 in a real fight?

James: Yeah. I offered out this mouthy kid at school during a technology class and when I smacked him he tripped over, spilt white spirit all over his clothes and hit an electricity box. In one swift move he performed Blanka's electricity move, the yoga fire, and a sonic boom. I still won the fight but I got put on report card.

UP - The video for "that boy that girl" is the best thing we've seen in ages – how did that come about?

Pilau: Bob Harlow the director makes skate videos and used to skate with our drummer Nick when they were younger. He offered to film us a video when he heard our stuff. We filmed against a (white coloured) green screen last October and since then Bobby has been carefully cutting out little paper stills of us and taking pictures of them against the colourful backgrounds that James painted for stop motion animation. This you can imagine is a time consuming process and rumour has it Bobby actually didn't leave his studio, even to eat or sleep, for the four months it took to produce. The effect of this has essentially left him an emotionally crippled man who can only speak the words to 'That Boy That Girl' and gently sobs every time he hears the sound of a Roland SH 201 synthesiser. However the outcome has in our opinion made that small sacrifice worthwhile. We paid him 20 quid too.

UP - Grindie/new rave – blah, blah – do you get sick of the tags or do you think its helped you create an identity?

James: I don't think the tags help your identity, they just restrict you if you are willing to subscribe to them, and we don't. We think ninety-percent of these so called New Rave bands are quality, but don't really feel a link with Rave or any particular scene, fictional or not.

UP - What's the best gig you've done so far?

Pilau: New years eve at Nambucca was quite fun, we had a power cut halfway through the last song, that boy that girl, so we just carried on accapella and we had this room full of people just singing along in total darkness. You can see a video of it on our blog

UP - If you weren't in Hadouken! What other band would you be in?

Pilau: I think we'd all like to be in Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames but they seem to have this really strict rule whereby your not allowed to be in the band unless you're actually quite good at playing an instrument.

UP - Some would say the social commentary you engage in on todays fashion-orientated society displays a wry and inordinate wit, others would say you are a mouthy cunt – which one is it?

James: Indeed. The hyperbolic, rapscallious, and arguably egotistical nature of my on-stage persona and irony-filled verbal expulsions is merely a spurious vessel for me to expound my reflections on the hypocritical and ersatz nature of modern… Nah… mouthy cunt it is.

UP - Are there any new bands around at the moment that get the hadouken! Stamp of approval?

Yeah. Colon Open Bracket, Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames, Tiger Force, Lost Penguin, Forward Russia, Elle Milano, Bolt Action 5 and Bono Must Die.

UP - You seem to be a fan of glowsticks, does the fact that they were developed by the US military and as such their sale, and revenue from patents may actually be funding the onset of armageddon concern you?

James: I have a phobia of them coz I once bit into one as a small child and the fluorescent goo inside tasted like cancer and earwax and my teeth were all glowing. Apparently they are really bad for the environment too. I can't hate the US military that much (apart from all the gratuitous killing and invading) coz someone told me they invented videogames, to teach kids to kill.

UP - What do your brothers and sisters listen to? Do they rate your stuff?

Pilau: My brother plays drums in the band. My other brother is our roadie, he's a policeman which is handy because it means if anyone starts shouting abuse while we're playing we just have him give them a taste of his CS spray.

James: My brother smokes lots of cannabis and listens to violently dark, gabba-like Drum and Bass from former eastern bloc countries. (It's a shame that I'm not joking.) Alice's younger sister has surprisingly good taste. I nicked her Strokes CD but don't tell her.

UP - What are you up to for the rest of 2007?

Pilau: We've got degrees to finish at Leeds uni then we're going to play loads of shows and maybe learn how to play our instruments properly and start recording an album. We've got a single out in February on our own label Surface Noise Records so we'll be doing some shows and live radio bits and pieces around that time.

Hopefully at some stage some record label MD is going to hand us a cheque for loads and loads of money that we can use to buy disgustingly over priced works of contemporary art to build a stage show that resembles the Brixton riots taking place inside the Saatchi gallery.

UP - The hype-media call it new rave, surely it can't possibly be like rave without vicks vapour-rub coated dust masks and baby pacifiers – what do you think?

James: I was five years old during rave so probably a bit old, (or not e'ed up enough) for the pacifiers and vicks vapour rub stinks. Literally.

UP - Boring question – how did you all meet and how did Hadouken! Come about?

James and Alice met at Art college three years ago, Pilau met both of them at Leeds uni and Nick and Pilau are brothers. At the start of last year we were bored shitless with the latest crop of dishevelled libertines wannabes being touted as the next big things and far more interested and excited by noisy and ambitious bands that surrounded us in Leeds like Forward Russia and Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames.

Then when we came back to London for the summer and got really excited by the stuff that was going on there, not so much in terms of specific bands but promoters and DJs who were starting to throw together all kinds of music, east London raves were you would hear grime, garage, rave and guitar bands mashed up with no interest in consistency. After one such night out I got a phone call from James saying he'd written a tune and we were going to form a band. He sent me a demo of the tune, which turned out to be That Boy That Girl, suitably impressed I called him back and we agreed to recruit my brother Nick on drums and his girlfriend Alice on synth.

UP - I heard you cite Nintendo as an influence –have you had the chance to get your hands on the Wii? If not what was your favourite nintendo system?

Pilau: Not yet, it looks sweet though. We have the original NES on at my house during 'rehearsals' quite a lot. We play Super Mario and Bart Versus the Space Mutants but we lust the gun for Duck Hunt. My current gaming experience of choice is Tetris on the original game boy, it is essentially the perfect game, and I'm really, really good.

James: Nintendo Wee… hehehe.

UP - According to an unreliable source, the term new-rave was developed by the marketing team at Evian, Wrigley's and Mitsubishi due to flagging sales since the super-club slump at the end of the 90's. Have you received any offers for corporate sponsorship?

James: Yeah we had lots of offers but in the end we decided to strike deals with the following evil mega-corporations. Mattel Toys, Amiga, Terry's Chocolate Orange, Lucky Charms Cereals, Kappa clothing and the NHS.