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

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.

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

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.

We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using collage and sound in a digital way. MTV, a couple of years later would be that way.