Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and "film" and "cinema" and we were always cinematic in our thinking.

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.

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

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

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

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.