11. PhotekModus Operandi
Photek is moody, it really got me. The title track ‘Modus Operandi’ was fucking good, the tension, then the first four tracks are really good. It reminded me of CCTV, it caught the atmosphere of this emerging new world coming out the ashes, this refined capitalism, the greed of Britpop at the end of the 90s when things were becoming more intense. Very claustrophobic. They kind of merge, this album and Red Snapper. I used to like getting absolutely walloped after a gig and putting it on, fucking yeah.
I was in a sort of Terry Callier type act at the time. He’s fucking brilliant – he died about four years ago. That stuff doesn’t make the list because it didn’t influence the structure of Sleafords really, the kind of music I wanted for it or the vocal.
At that time, I only really listened to jungle or drum and bass at home. I was never into those nights, fuck that, no way, I wasn’t interested. By that time bar culture had come along and I liked to sit around doing lots of sniff, you know. Sit around, soaking it all in, looking like a tit, you know.
