We get this perverse pleasure in turning these things down in a way. We’ve been offered to play the Palladium, which is like the biggest night club there, at the moment. We’ve had numerous opportunities to play huge festivals in Holland and in America. It makes me physically ill…In a sense, we’re being tarred by our own brush in this condemnation but try to have that, and have the ability and have the time to work in isolation, you know? Get on with what we really believe in…This is the first time we’ve stood in front of a video camera and said these things. Turning away from outside influences, you spend so much energy shutting out and filtering everything, records and TV and that…I can’t actually listen to the radio. I actually believe that you can strengthen yourself through those things by putting yourself through it…If anyone wanted to look for a message in our music, in our overall sort of thing, it would be that you just have to go through individual visions, whether they be Hitler or Bosch, Breughel, or something, but it’s only by plowing into yourself that I think you can get anything worthwhile. As we were saying before, we believe states of delirium and sort of self-induced madness, whether it be from LSD or schizophrenia, which you would invoke and make worse. Not in a sort of punk-anarchy kind of way, but mental chaos. From The Sound of Progress : “You sort of utilize the chaos, that we propagate and generate chaos.
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