That was after our first album. We had a brief flirtation with the Interscope labels. But Beggar's Banquet is a great label. They seemed to do lot of promotion in the first place, anyway. It was nice to be signed to a big label, but we only knew one person there, and when he got sacked it became this nameless, faceless corporation.
Major labels are in such a bad way at the moment.
Everyone is too scared to take a risk. This is the time when independents are taking hold, cleaning up after the majors. All these great bands are being dropped, which is an opportunity for smaller labels to pick them up and start over again. It's spring cleaning. There's too much waste and crap being dumped by the major labels.