One of the first places we played live for a lot of people was in Orlando, in 1994. We were just amazed that someone knew who we were and got in touch and paid for a plane ticket to America to play. And then we turn up, and it's a massive, full-on rave. We had this track, «Chemical Beats,» and we'd show up with an MPC and a Juno-106 and some distortion pedals and just make it up.

No one was asking us to come and play that kind of thing in England then. We'd turn up in the States and play records like «Song to the Siren» and people would know them. It was mind-blowing, really. We'd made this record in our bedroom, and suddenly we were in America, which for us was an exotic place to go—even though, I must admit, Orlando is maybe not the most exotic place in the world. But for us, at that time, we couldn't believe it! And then we'd go off to San Francisco and New York.

Tom Rowlands.