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Geri Halliwell did it because she wanted to go faster, Bullet For My Valentine did it to help them shoot straight and Super Furry Animals said it was an international language. None of which helps work out exactly why screaming is quite so popular amont the proper ROCK fraternity at the moment.

And not just any old screaming. Certainly not screaming like a girl who wants a lolly even though she has just had one, and she's going to have to wait until tea-time for anything else to eat. No, this is more screaming like a sore baboon attempting to scare a rival away from all the lady baboons, or possibly like Satan asking for two sugars in his tea.

So who better to ask about all of this than one of Funeral For A Friend, a band who arrived playing lots of screamy songs, and then wrote lots of singy songs, and who have elected to put these two vocal extremes together for their next album?

That's right, Dave Grohl!

But apparently he's busy. So Gareth, the non-screaming FFAF bassist, will just have to do.