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

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

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.

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.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

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.

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