Was there pressure on The Associates to be an orthodox group with usual organisation?
No pressure that we took any notice of really. Nobody could organise us. I’d have to be in jail before somebody could organise me. The hits introduced peripheral challenges that haven’t profoundly affected your personality. Aye. Sometimes I wish I could feel the wondrousness of being famous and wow-ish. But I don’t get like that. I could go back to how it was last year quite easy. I can get amazed by other things, like The Deerhunter, but no’ by meself. You can look in the mirror too much and go of your head. You enjoy showing off though. I love it. It’s a great thing to do. I can be quite proud of all that business and when I was on Top Of The Pops I was definitely showing off. I was being dead Tom Jones-ish. The name has always implied… that The Associates are Associates, that was always the course to take, work with mates. It was getting to be that there was just two Associates, and now we’re getting like eight or nine, all doing different things. which is fantastic. Me and Alan h
