Whether it was career suicide or not, I don't know
but I made a point of separating ourselves from other people in the scene, you know
Very quickly
I just wanted to separate ourselves from that
because I just felt that was another straightjacket, another cliche
I wanted to make something that was us, or me, you know
and not be attached to that
Everything was chunks of sounds
There were some generous sheets of sound, as well
over the top
We used two bass players, two drummers, and an (ornamental) guitar
Maybe there would be 50 people there at the start of a show
and ten left at the end of the show
There wasn't anything like it and it was very, kind of, brutal
so people weren't prepared to deal with it, usually
But eventually we developed some kind of audience
I don't exactly know how
I guess from touring relentlessly
Finding whatever misfits were in the town that wanted to hear what we did
Now, fortunately, it's reached a pretty wide audience
for us anyway
Here we go
The main thing is to challenge yourself
and to make work that surprises you
and that has magic
If you do the same thing over and over, there's no magic
so you have to find a new way to do things