God knows it's taken me long enough to get to the point it is finally starting to work - and it's a great feeling to still feel I'm at the start of something big. Never having had a record come out that was taken seriously has the added benefit of making people's reactions a near irrelevance. What does it feel like now, listening to the 5 Eps ? Paul W: It's strange listening to the music now, time has created a detachment. It's difficult to be objective about it having been so close. I've got no idea if it's good/bad/ok. There are certain tracks where the purity of the idea is realised more than others, with something like 'Summer's Last Sound'. I'm a little uncomfortable with the looseness of most of it, although I understand that if the recordings were perfectly quantized the product would create a different impression. I also think that there was a lot of unrealised potential. The pressure to keep moving at too swift a rate is something that although benefitted our evolution in the short term, caused Ian problems in particular. He put the band under enormous pressure and personally felt the strain in song writing. I think that if we had taken a longer view and allowed ourselves more freedom to create over a period of time, we could have achieved a better balance. Virtually everything that we wrote was released. The time between writing and recording was usually very short and didn't leave