“I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction to the social conditions. That was part of it for us as well, and that's why we were kind of swept along with punk.” ThinkingWellsKindSocialSawsConditionsReactionsPunkSocial Conditions Author:Stephen Mallinder
“[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.” WellsSongMediaTitlesSong Titles Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.” WellsBigsCareFilmSoundShotsPeterEditedFunk Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Even though we were influenced by American culture and music, we like the rest of Europe have been colonized with that in the post-war period. At the same time there's a sense of dirty earthiness and Europeanness and Britishness in it as well.” WellsHas BeensWarCulturePeriodsEuropePostsDirtyAmerican CulturePost War Author:Stephen Mallinder
“We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.” PeopleWellsEnoughKnownLuckyAreasProducersFortunateEtcEngineersFloodVirginsWell KnownBrianPopular MusicCusp Author:Stephen Mallinder
