Mrs Fiend is the synth-playing spouse of singer Nik Fiend (the couple keep a cat called Loony) and are alongside them are Johnny Ha Ha (percussion) and Yaxi (guitar).

The Fiends heads were first raised during the early days of The Batcave and since then their strange brand of Munsters and Addams Family trash horror rock has spawned two LPs (the charmingly titled 'Whose Been Sleeping In My Brain?' and 'Acid Bath') and two full-length videos capturing their live set in its unassuming gory glory.

The first video, 'Purple Glistener' was made by a small but ambitious company using just two cameras.

Nik "It was at Birmingham's Tin Can Club, our first proper headline gig outside London, and looking back we were a bit embarrassed by it. But some people think it's the greatest thing on the planet.

We've learned a lot from watching it about how to project ourselves. I used to be lying on the floor for most of the gig but now I stand up and let me head wobble around!.

I haven't got very fond memories of that night because Mrs Fiend's jacket was stolen and we lost two weeks rent. People think we're pop stars but we still have to pay rent, eat food and go to the toilet. Everything we do is on a small budget but we're quite proud of the fact that we do things quickly and don't have to cover anything up with overdubs and editing effects.

"The stage set is very last minute too, Once the muslin goes up we've created our own atmosphere, We could be laying in Timbuktu but it feels like home. Sometimes we'll stick something new in like a fridge or a telly!"

Mrs Fiend: "As soon as we go on its like a party. Some people who come to see us are as into it as it's possible to be . Some get hypnotised and just stand there with their mouths open, not even blinking."

Nik: "About half stand and watch but the other half go absolutely haywire, jumping off the stage and breaking their noses and legs."

Mrs Fiend: "The video shows the whole set from beginning to end. Plus there are mental bits, there were loads of funny people there and got up on the roof."

Sounds great! The fiendish four have also been lapped up in America particularly on the west coast. Their second video ASF:LA was made at a show in Los Angeles. It was shot by a local video enthusiast on a solitary camera, originally for his own amusement and on condition that he gave the Fiends a copy. This he did, although he didn't dare meet the band!

Nik: "He just left the tapes and ran off – I think he thought we'd eat him. Nobody ever came into the dressing room. In Los Angeles they think we're cannibals!

"The best way to describe it is a bootleg with pictures. 13 tracks totally live from waiting for the band to come, us being introduced, the set and the curtain falling down halfway through 'R.I.P.'. Everything went wrong but a lot of people really liked it."

Mrs Fiend: "The English one has better camera work but if you want to view it as a live gig then the American one is best. It gets really weird to wards the end , the lighting is brilliant. There is a kind of strobe on Nik's head which makes it look as though his head is jumping about."

Nik: "My eyes look distorted, I look schizophrenic but it blew the audience's minds. There were 1300 people there who didn't know about us and were saying 'Come on, impress us' And we did! We even impressed ourselves!"

Mrs Fined: "The place was about the size of Hammersmith Odeon, we needed binoculars to see each other. There are no close-ups but it's like watching the gig from the circle and, like a proper, gig, it warms up as it goes along."

The group were denied the opportunity to gawp at themselves until they reached New York and were doing an autographing stint in a shop. The article was loaded into the store video player. Impressed with the contents and the fact that astonished shoppers immediately began requesting copies,they brought it home and paid £150 to have it transferred from the American to the English video system.

Mrs Fiend: "It's a different side of video really. We don't expect Virgin to stock it in every one of their branches on the shelves beside Duran Duran. You even have to wait for the encore, not knowing whether we're going to come back on."

Nik: "Even we didn't know whether we came back on when we first watched it. What we do is the type of thing we would like to see. We play quite a long set and sometimes I think that might be a bit too much for people – it obliterates their minds! But when we began we didn't really expect anything. It's all a pleasant surprise. A dream that came true."

Mrs Fiend: "Or a nightmare."

In the future they are planning to complement the whole of 'Acid Bath' in the form of slides, some of paintings by Nik, synchronised to the music. More immediately pressing, however, is the feeding of Loony and the pair gather their cloaks and scurry homeward to prepare the beast's supper.