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.

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.)

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.