A few months back, Kim Temple (aka Temple Threat) lost her voice and called in sick for her Wavelength gig, so an impromptu replacement was formed: Dean Williams (QuasiMojo; electronics + drums), Matthew Nish-Lapidus (mn-l; guitar + electronics), and Jonny Dovercourt (bass + guitar) and sometimes featuring Jenny Mitchell (The Bar Mitzvah Brothers; Omnichord organ). This will be their third show. Ryan McLaren got the skinny and the fat.

Musically, how did you end up where you are today? What brought you to this band and this sound? MN-L: Sound? What sound? It's probably safe to say that we don't really have a "sound" yet. But we're getting there. I guess it's just the combination of all our independent influences, some of which are the same, and I guess that's what brought us together. DW: An open-ended challenge to Kim Temple. We are the anti-Kim Temple. Jonny is Kim Temple's evil doppelganger and arch-nemesis. Stories of their week-long battles will echo through the great halls, as a thousand gongs ring out and golden confetti rains from the sky. Jonny kicks ass FOR THE LORD. JD: It's true, I bio-engineered a supervirus which disabled KT's larynx and silenced her oh-so-dulcet tones, thus allowing for 3RC's spontaneous creation on the Wavelength stage a mere six hours later. But evil? We're here to dissolve Manichean opposites and turn the machines against themselves.

So, is 3RC in a state of evolution or flux right now? How can you see it evolving in the future? DW: I don't think we've achieved a steady state. We are presently unstirredfruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. Matt is our token fruit on the bottom. MN-L: Flux-olution. Personally, I can see us evolving into some sort of lizard. A lizard that plays noisy melodic music and has an infatuation with technology. JD: Each rehearsal seems to be powered by a flux capacitor; we experience weekly leaps of mutation forward. At this exponential rate, by the year 2005 we will have actually traveled back to the year 1955 and invented all forms of modern popular music as we know it. The only snag will be that Matt and I will have to stop Dean from accidentally marrying his own Mum.

Do you guys like word games? Lets do some analogies: Black is to white as 3RC is to [blank]. DW: Pffefeurneuse! MN-L: Cantaloupe. JD: Hagiography.

Ketchup is to grilled cheese sandwiches as 3RC is to [blank]. DW: Dissonant melodic instrumentation! JD: Audience make-out sessions! MN-L: Celine Dion. They really should be on the same plate with each other.

What's the best thing about this band? DW: I think the best thing about this band is the zero-stress factor and the (relative) lack of form. This is a nice vacation, coming from another band where everything is painstakingly structured. It's like a day at the spa, or at least like I imagine a day at the spa to be, but with more computers and less towels. But equal amounts of hot mud. MN-L: Only having worked solo in the last few years, it's nice to work with other people. But I'd say the best thing about this band would have to be the freedom it provides to try new forms of music and combine all our musical interests into one big amorphous blob. JD: Dean and Matt are nice and funny guys who show up for practice when they say they're going to. In fact, they are unnervingly punctual. Also, they are bigger gearheads than me and can show my Luddite punk ass how to Make Things Work. Also, Jenny shows up to play gigs with us and brings her own special brand of wide-eyed awesome.

How does each of you define success? Have you achieved it? Is it even something you strive for? DW: You've made it when you get hate mail from someone other than ex-girlfriends. I strive for the undiluted ire of my peers via electronic mail. MN-L: Success is when you have a show and people know what they're going to see. We haven't really had the "where is this relationship going" talk yet, but that might be successful too. JD: Success is when I get up in the morning and I possess the raw materials to make a satisfying cup of coffee.