How did Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters end up singing on “Jetstream?
” Hook: There are two versions of this story. I just heard Bernard’s. “Jetstream” was finished, and we used our backing vocalist, a lovely girl named Dawn. Then our A&R manager said that there was something missing. We were like, “Shut up mate! You’re an A & R man!” So anyway, they wanted to do a remix on it, and basically our A&R guy insisted Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters have a go. Lo and behold, she did a great job, ’cause we weren’t really expected anything more on it then what we had done, but she took it and did a good job. There is talk of it being the next single, but it’s a bit poppy for my liking really. How did you pick the single? Hook: It’s strange. When we did this disc the first two singles that the record company picked were very New Order. Normally we pick really poppy songs. I was like “Finally! After eight albums these singles sound like New Order.” Then that bloody woman from the Scissor Sisters comes along and does a bloody great job and now they have stuck t
