I was just pleased that they didn’t intend to feature the band. We’d seen too many punk bands standing there scowling in black and white, their name sprayed on the wall behind them. We were all behind playing down the personality. Our image was a kind of anti-image, about anonymity and being chilly and gray and buttoned-up against the cold. In lots of our pictures we’re hunched up or have our backs turned, which was a mixture of being cold and not giving a fuck about the whole business of image, really. We didn’t want it to be about us. We certainly didn’t want it to be about our looks, ’cause
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