"The title came to Raymond [McGinley] in a morning dream just before he woke up," explains co-frontman Norman Blake. "He said he opened his eyes and it was written on the ceiling or something. I'm not entirely sure if it connects to the album, but we just felt it sounded good. And...

"We didn't actually break up," says guitarist Paul Livingston. "We just stopped answering the phone and leaving the house. Everybody's been in a bit of a bad mood."

The mood changed when,...

Alternative Rock is dead; long live demographics. Since virtually all of the great late-Seventies and early-Eighties independent labels got snatched up by the big boys, the sound that once shook the underground has been touted – and accepted – as the latest groovy thing for going on ten years now. The elements have barely budged – enigmatic band names, droning guitars, pretty...