Richard Archer Quotations

We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.

We're quite happy to come and gatecrash things.

We'll be back in June and plan to make up for it.

Ricky came up to me and he was really sweet,

I was very conscious that you don't get many opportunities in life and we had an opportunity,

We made it on a cheap PC that couldn't get enough power and kept crashing. We'd borrow microphones, cords and pieces, and we made our own kind of soundproofing. That's what I mean about trying to be great with what you've got. ... It gives you a sound that no one else has got because no one else is doing it in that room. It's like the great Stones records where you hear Charlie Watts miss a beat or you hear Mick in the background encouraging the backing singers. It's amazing.

We feel like outsiders so if they want to rank us as outsiders then that suits us fine,

Anything that can help has got to be a good thing. Other products get help (in being marketed overseas) by the Department of Trade and Industry, so why not music?

It's just close enough to the city but no-one ever goes there,

No, it's this decade, the one we're living in. It's the only thing that can influence you.

It's totally alien for us to be at something like the Mercury's. Wed have frittered the money away and given some to our producer. He made our album for love; it was never about anything else.

There's towns just like ours in America. I think what we say is quite universal.

The look in his eyes said it all.