One of the biggest corporate lies in history, up there with selling terrible mortgages. - Nicky Wire

It was supposed to be a joke. As I was saying it I thought ‘This is going to be really funny’. Then this deathly silence descended on the place.

The internet is the grandest illusion ever created. It makes people think they’re popular, they have loads of friends, they’re part of a community. And they actually have a voice. They don’t actually realise that like all of us, they’re completely fucked and powerless.

It seemed a marriage made in heaven really. I found someone who believed in the same ideas as me, and was even worse musically.