"Skindive Music News"	Hot Press
n/a	15 April 1998

Skindive are concerned that their swallow EP hasn't gone down to well with the American Drug Enforcement Agency. According to manager Dermot Geoghegan, the problem lies with the packet of pills pictured on the cover. "We gave TNT two boxes of the CD's to courier over to the South By South West music convention in Texas which I was attending on the band's behalf," Geoghegan explains. "The box with the normal EP's, which have a very clear image of the pills on them, was dispatched first and never arrived. The second one, containing the crucifix promo-packs we got done up specially for the SXSW, eventually made it to Austin the day before I was due to go home. The pills are also featured on that but, having been given a Photoshop treatment, they're a lot less obvious. It's at this point that the grassy knole comes into view. "Officially, no one know what had happened but, unofficially, I was told the State of Florida customs had held the CD's up because they didn't like the drug connotations. With the PMRC and all that, they're really paranoid over there." Disc less of not, Geoghegan managed to line up a number of prospective international partners. "It's been pretty wee documented that we've had majors offering us deals but we don't want to commit ourselves to anything that would compromise the band's creativity. You get contracts that look fine on the surface but dig a bit deeper and there are all these obscenity clauses and stipulations regarding royalty payments." "To get round that, we want to make ourselves as self-sufficient as possible and to go to people, 'here's the package, take it or leave it."