“We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were st…” — Keren Woodward

If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.