Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

We were responding to a period in the 70s when we started that it was very much you cannot be involved in music unless you studied to do music.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.

We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.