WHEN you've practised and practised your heavy metal tunes, played your first ever gig, and even released your first few tracks into the wild wilderness of public gaze you can sit back and enjoy your burgeoning success. Or maybe not...

_{Danny and Ben from Thunder are playing a Rock Radio NI gig in The Black Box, Belfast on 31st August 2013. I had the opportunity to talk to them both on the phone recently and had a lot of laughs in the process of recording an interview for the Friday NI Rocks Show that was broadcast on 12th July.}

_{What follows is a transcription of that interview. Some of the banter may not come across as well as on the live recording, but I thought is was still worth sharing.}

Guest columnist Mark Ashby interviews Sylvain Sylvain of The New York Dolls

There is no doubt about it - The New York Dolls are one of THE seminal bands who helped to influence not one, not two but several generations of rock ‘n’ rollers.