Even Antiproduct singer Alex admits there was a time when doing a cover of The Beach Boys' 'Good Vibrations' - "one of the best recordings ever in the history of mankind" - seemed far from the greatest idea he'd ever had: "Initially, we started the process to be, like, 'You know what? Fuck all of you, we're doing 'Good Vibrations', you can just suck a dick,' just for the balls of being able to do something like that, because, let's face it, it's a bad idea."

And it wasn't easy. The band soon found themselves "burning through engineers" and the ones that lasted warned Alex he was throwing his money away. But the song started to develop "its own weird karma". Out of nowhere, legendary producer Sylvia Massy offered her services. And Goodvibes.com have licensed the song for a "huge campaign on the radio in the US", which has covered most of the production costs. And they've given them $15,000' worth of dildos as promotional giveaways.

What do you do with that many dildos?

I think vibrators function as legal tender in England. We've been giving them away at shows and chicks have absolutely no compunction about going, "I will not only have one, but two, and I will be pissed if you don't throw in the batteries." Initially, it was going to be handing them out through a proper press mailout, but because we have so many I'm giving them away like candy. You know, "Hey, nice to meet you, here's a vibrator."

I've actually done that as I carry them around in this hip pack thing I have, and I always have three or four as conversation pieces. I had a huge problem getting them into the country. Usually, because of our appearance, aside from the lime-green hair and, OK, I've got tattoos on my face in real life as opposed to when I'm in character, usually our appearance works as a double bluff, you know, if these guys are smuggling drugs they are the biggest idiots in the world. This was the one time this, of course, backfired.

What was the conversation with customs like?

It was a fucking nightmare. I'm from Chicago and I came up from the street, that's no secret, and so you learn how to survive and whatever, and customs guys have been trained to see through that. They can spot that at a mile. I'm flinging bullshit like I am a cow - anything from any angle. Because first of all there's the problem of, what are these things - are they grenades or what? - particularly now with the terrorist scares and stuff. It's a stupid idea to have brought them back, but I did. Once it's established I wouldn't have got on the plane if they had a trace of explosives on them, the second thing is, "Are you gonna sell these things?"

If you're carrying $15,000' worth of vibrators, figure out what 17.5 per cent of that is for VAT. And they're looking at us like we're sexual terrorist perverts, right? Eventually it was all fine but I got hassle for wasting their time. We were getting looks like we had just flown in from Mars on a spaceship made from vibrators. The tourists and shit were walking by, and I was standing there with Claire, who is like 6ft5in with the Mohawk, and has got vibrators spilling at her feet.

Have you flown back into the country since?

No. Why, will that be a problem?

Don't be surprised if you get a full cavity search.

At least it'll save me $50.

*'Good Vibrations' is out on 20 November to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the original hitting Number One. Visit Antiproduct.com or Myspace.com/antiproduct