Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.

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

One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much a reaction to the pomposity of rock that existed within music at that time.

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.