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The regular vocalists would sometimes be augmented by singers such as Sinéad O'Connor and Annalise [sic] Drecker. Annalise really had character: she was very pretty, but a bit of a tomboy. Her dad was one of Norway's top football coaches. She did the ‘Becoming More Like God’ video with me. I have done a handful of videos over the years, but that one is my favourite; it was directed by Peter Christopherson.

Over the years Metal Box has come to be referred to, largely by your bog-standard, dim-witted thirty-something music journalist, as a dark and morbid impenetrable classic. You always get the impression that most of these people who spout on about Metal Box have never really listened to it. (In a way, it reminds me of James Joyce's Ulysses, insofar as it's discussed far more than it is actually read.)

Of course, I have to thank Sid [Vicious] for my stage name. He was drunk and slurred my name [John Wardle] into ‘Jah Wobble’. The ‘Jah’ part was perfect, of course, because I was such a big reggae aficionado. As soon as he said it I said, ‘I'm keeping that!’ I thought that it was perfect: It stood out and I knew that people would never forget it.