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.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

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

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

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

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.

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.