Jill: It's like brother and sister...

Can you tell us how you got together?

Jill: We met through a mutual friend when i was in another band and the drummer wasn't very good so I was looking for a drummer and he knew a drummer. He gave me Jims number...it was about 4 years ago. He came and...I wouldn't say he auditioned but...

Jim: I think this band auditioned for the drummer (smiles)

Jill: No...erm that was it.

What exactly do you both do?

Jill: I sing and play guitar and we write everything together.

Jim: I play drums.

Jill: Jim does all the programming as well.

Why the name Speedway?

Jill: It came from an Elvis film called Speedway

Jim: It was with Nancy Sinatra

Jill: And we were looking for a new name because the one we had at the time was awful.

What was that?

Jill: I knew you were going to ask that! The band was called Dirty Pink Frock and it was so bad.

Jim: The band was called that when I joined it.

Jill: And the film had Speedway written in lights in the background and it sounded good.

It seems to fit your music...

Jim: Ay. It's mostly upbeat kind of stuff.

Jill: It's very guitar driven.

Now a little about your backgrounds. How did you come to this point? Musically what were you listening to?

Jill: As I was growing up and still now I was listening to a lot of country music. I would say that is one of my biggest influences. I think there's really good musicians in country music and it made me want to play guitar.  I listened to a lot of Tracy Chapman.

Jill: Dolly Parton of course but people like Mary Chopin Carpenter, Faith Hill. I do like other stuff but...

Jim: I was brought up on...my brother had most of the Beatles CDs and stuff like that. AC/DC as well. It was good stuff to get into. It sort of progressed into U2. they were my biggest influences as a teenager.