At an appearance on arty BBC2 programme The Riverside Show [23 skidoo] met Sketch, then the bass player for pop-funkers, Linx. The interview, hilariously conducted with the aid of repeating tape loops so the interviewer’s questions were repeated back to him, was never transmitted. "We met Sketch just after we were in our weirdest period and everyone else was going" – Alex makes the sign of the cross – "’ssss!’ and he was like ‘wow, that’s really interesting!’ That was when we’d gone our farthest away and were starting to orbit back in and Sketch was sort of zoning out."
"That’s what intrigued me about these guys, because this was the absolute antithesis of what I’d just come out of," recalls Sketch. "We’d been waiting for something like 18 months for Trevor Horn to do the third Linx album. Why were we waiting for one guy? And it was because he’d been successful and because Chrysalis thought we needed to move up a gear. They had totally turned their backs on that, really, and that was really refreshing. They were younger than me and they’d already made that decision and I was already pretty anti the whole scene that I’d just come out of."
