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.

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

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.

I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.