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.

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.

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.

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

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.

I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

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.