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. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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,… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We had always used found sound, but we had always used it in an analogue way. And it was the early days of using… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think probably underneath it all, film [Kino] has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
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