it for some of the new material, you never know -- it's a goldmine of unused material!" [laughs] S] Your music uses a lot of samples of old archive material and public information videos -- where did that idea come from? J] "It came from listening to a Radio 4 program, appropriately enough, which was hosted by Mr Tom Robinson, of the parish of 6 Music, and he was presenting an archive hour about the release of some national archive films onto the internet for the first time. I just liked the sound of what I heard, so I thought I'd go and have a listen -- not even in a particularly musical sense. I listened to a couple, and I think there was one, 'Coughs And Sneezes Spread Diseases', which kind of grabbed me -- there were a couple of samples that I thought I might just tinker round with. So I made a song, played it to a few people, and unlike nearly everything I'd ever done prior to that, people said they liked it! So I tried making another one after that." S] So you thought you were onto something there. J] "Certainly relative to what I'd been doing before, yeah!" S] The name of the band and the general aesthetic, it's very reminiscent of a sort of 'stiff-upper-lip' Englishness -- was that intentional, or was it something you built up as you went along? J] "It's generally how I look in everyday life, so it seemed