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

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.

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.

If you're going to change things, one of the things we had to change is to get away from that traditional model of rock music, and we were a part of that.

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.

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

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.