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.

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.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.

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.

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

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.