doing.” I don’t think we ever thought that
this was going to be a long career,
although Keren and I have been doing
this for over 30 years now. But we had a
similar meeting with Malcolm McLaren,
where he was telling us, “You need to do
this, and you need to do that.” But trying
to tell three girls how to be and what to
do? That was just not on our agenda. So
that didn’t work out at all.
IE: Can you imagine any of today’s pre-
fab girl groups going drinking with
Robert
Smith, though? Or doing anything off
Simon Cowell's script?
SD: Well, we were always a group of girls,
not a girl group. And we probably had
more in common with groups like Duran
Duran and The Cure. And Keren and I
later became friends with The Prodigy.
We were just people, and you certainly
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IE: Siobhan officially rejoined in April of
last year. How did it feel having that fan-
tastic three-part blend again?
SD: Like I said, Keren and I had been
onstage forever, so it was quite natural for
us. But I think Siobhan was quite nervous
about it all. But we had great people
working with us, and that was the beauty
of being able to do a huge show like this –
the visuals are great, and the whole show
is put together in a way that we hadn’t
done since the ‘80s on that scale.
Obviously, technology has moved on,
with all the screens and everything, so it
was just fantastic. And fashion-wise,
we’ve always had a strong identity, so
with our stage outfits we storyboarded
what we wanted, and then we got this
great young designer to design the
clothes. And our style was always our
style – innate and never contrived – so it
was always very easy for us.
couldn’t have defined us as ‘That girl
group.’ We weren’t manufactured, and
we always had opinions and – to use that
awful term – Girl Power. I didn’t grow up
thinking I couldn’t do something because
I was female – that was never on the
agenda for me. So we’ve always been
strong in our opinions and in where we
wanted to go in life, I think.
IE: Are you three going to record again
now?
SD: That’s never been the plan – it was
just “Okay – let’s do a one-off tour of
Britain and see what happens.” And it
was a great thing. Then someone said,
“Would you want to come and do some
shows in America?” And we just thought,
“Yeah – great!” Because there were so
many fans that really wanted to see us out
there that loads of Americans came over
to the UK, and they were popping [up] in
places like Cardiff and York. They made
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