We need a SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK biopic now!

if there was ever a band that needed to have a reunion SSS forever !!!!

Brilliant interview, a fantastic insight of a group I loved then and still love to this day. I’d love to see them reform.

Fantastic interview! I saw SSS in 1986, 17 years old and were so exciting they blew me away!

What a great interview! Thanks Tony and all for making SSS happen. SImply visionary.

Tony is such a nice guy. I have SO much respect for him. I remember the day he took me inside his flat in Pindock Mews and showed me the original demo video that they got signed from. And to Martin & Yana's flat in Harrow Road to watch the band play in the rehearsal room. Magical. Even after Martin walked out, I went to see Neal fronting the band in Edinburgh, and Tony took time-out to talk with me before the gig. (I was completely inebriated and 'intoxicated' that night, but hey!) He basically shaped my future, by inspiring me to get into music production. If I hadn't met Tony, I don't think I would have ever touched a synthesizer or sang a note. Anyway, Tony, he's an absolute legend, a gentleman and absolute musical intelligentsia. 👾🥂🛰

Fantastic interview. I was there in the 80s and believe me, the hype for this band was on another level. They looked dangerous, sounded futuristic and made fantastic music. Flaunt It Box Set is great, would’ve loved to have seen some Sci-Fi Sex Stars tracks remastered there , Razz Crazy, Youth Juice.. Hopefully we’ll get an ultimate box set on day.

Tony James. One of the best. Legend.

The first record I have bought in my life was “Flaunt it”. I only knew Love Missile F1-11 and the amazing cover of the record with that Transformer robot. I thought: “This album has to be good!”. And I was damn right!☺️

Wow this takes me back. Was into SSS back in the day. They played my home town at Reading Uni just as they were starting to pick up a lot of press. A band called Black Elvis 2000 supported them and the whole night had a really quite nasty vibe about it, The gig didn't go very well from what i remember...the venue was packed out but it ended in the famous incident where one of the drummers throw his beer bottle into the crowd and it smashed into a guys face and set off a near riot. I did see the guy getting helped out of the venue with blood streaming from his face. And then getting up the following day to see the front page of the national newspaper 'the news of the world' with the whole incident splashed across the front page. Gotta say it was quite something to think the gig i went to the night before was now on the front page of the most popular paper in England and there was an outcry to get the band banned and everyone was totally repulsed by them. Quite something.....

My favorite sample is: "Let Me Tell You About My Mother" from Blade Runner.

I bought my first bass the dae after I saw Sigue Sigue Sputnik in Caerdydd sometime back in the 1890s.

Brilliant. I'll watch this tomorrow. Saved to SSS playlist and watch later. Rediscovered the band this year since the 80's. Bought all their CDs. Got both Versions of Piratespace and Black Elvis. And Ultra Real. Watched their comeback gigs on KZfaq and they were great. I regret that I never got to see them live. It's time Tony should write an autobiography.

Cmon tony…let the London SS Demo tape see the light of day and realise it to all the punk fans.Great interview 👍

I was amazed to hear Tony say that Generation Sex was actually gonna tour. It was all set before Covid and they'd to managed persuade Steve Jones to get on a plane. These guys are great together. I'm gonna watch that one off gig they did. I was amazed to see it on KZfaq after they actually talked about getting it together on jonseys jukebox. I never thought they'd really do it. It's never to late to be late. ;-)

Beautifully outrageous! Fabulous band in every respect, with the most sexy-cool bass line in music history. If only all 6 of them could take even just a month out of their schedules to give us fans one final tour, and have it recorded for DVD release. Perfect.

It’s interesting to think, if he had held out for a few more years he could have done the whole thing without a band, just done it on his own and generated the whole thing digitally. Look at the Gorrilaz, he literally could have created his perfect band - and with the hologram technology out now he could do live shows too! It’s also interesting to think now that bands aren’t as reliant on the press for PR and with social media have direct access to fans - the press can’t just make up stuff would it still have been so hyped. I guess doing it now wouldn’t have been so crazy, it wouldn’t have made such a stir it’s quite hard to be provocative these days. Mind you, being actual people in a real band made it cool

In sweden we didnt see the tabloids or the controversy, I just loved the music and became a manic collector of sSs stuff. I was even "avatar 006" when sputnikworld got started on the internet.

The future that they dreamt was waaaay better than the future we are living now....

THANXXX!!! As an artist I really praise this. Love from PV,Mex

I love Tony so much. Great interview!

Best band ever in the 80's blew my mind, got my PVC pants painted with all their logos, and unfortunately started a riot in The Tache Blackpool whilst dancing to Love Missile F1-11 totally accidental

What a fantastic interview

Great insights into the roles of stardom and style in the post-punk years. After the focus on the lengthy and conceptual process of finding the other band members I wish Tony could have covered some detail of the recruitment of the drummers. And Ray's emergence as principal nutter, too... But a terrific interview none the less.

Love SSS , just last week had Atari baby blasting in car. 💥🏆👍😀

Thanks for the upload! Sputnik r our biggest influence. :)

Fantastic interview ! Thx

Very entertaining interview. I could listen to Tony talk about the minutiae of Sputnik for hours! The mention of their live shows under the name The Hot Dogs was tantalising ... if only there was a recording of one of those gigs where they played nothing but rock 'n' roll covers.

Thanks for this. Tony getting more and more excited talking about the band. It's a shame Martin wasn't involved with the reissue of Flaunt It though, but really enjoyed the interview 👍

That's so great that he met Prince! :-)

I remember Martin D. from years ago - top bloke!

a true musical visionary...

and i was there witnessing the sss from 1985-2003,history did prove us fans right xsputnikfredx

Excellent interview. (-:

SSS know that the music biz is supposed to be fun!

Savannah Nix was the young girl in the film - I played in a band called the same...

Cool dude old tony😉

Great nice to see you doin what you like

"renowned journalist John Robb" - lol, never heard of him till this interview and only because I was searching for Sigue Sigue Sputnik...

This was a great interview John. I was at the Generation Sex gig in Hollywood in October/2018 which was fantastic! I was out front of the venue after the gig and Tony James was waiting on a lift back to a hotel I am assuming anyway I interviewed Tony for my fanzine after SSS reformed in 97 so I walked to him told him who I was and the fanzine I used to do he blanked me and was an arrogant tosser! I should have have pulled the hair piece of his head!

📡 🛰 Honest fun interview about Rock 'n Roll, Cafés, reading lists, notebooks and inventing Yourself and absurdity of media ... Nice to meet a genuine mastermind 👽 🛸 pulling strange strings behind the musicworld theatre we lived in... A crash lecture about the music industry..🎉 for believers in romance...😅

🌹🍃🥀🍃🌹

Interesting that his previous band was called Generation X and the Sputnik concept epitomizes gen x with the rabid consumption of media - and consumption by media.

Martin Degville is still twenty-five...

Great interview. And too right, 'shorts on the beach, what the fuck was I thinking?' 🤣🤣🤣 They should've stuck to the original programme, those singles were edgy as fk, exciting, original, dangerous, and they watered it down and sold it out to pop nonsense. But for a brief moment in time there though, it was fkin beautiful!

I've had to defend SSS forever and that's a sign that they did something right

Llegan a brazil...y casi no logran contrato con daniel grinback para traerlo a ARGENTINA

Funny but SSS was the first thing I thought about after hearing that Putin was to allow for a Rock Concert to be staged at the Russian occupied Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine!

Would James do a CGI mo cap thing like ABBA have just done

Embryo, UFO, Freako, Psycho, Horrorshow

Melody Maker, NME, Sounds and the Evening Standard all hated this Band and I always wondered why. "Now Grandad?" I was asked by my Grandchildren after recently showing them the Video! "No darlings this was over thirty years ago", I replied. "stop lying Granddad!". Way ahead of the time they were!

Tony might be in denial about the cause of the backlash.

Tony James if you are listening....do it again, your still alive, we're still alive, no one is afraid, were all waiting.

BAD, ripped them off.

Yes, Tony, but ... your band had no songs. Forget the story and the Amazonia road crew. You had no songs.

They are crap 🤣

They were crap at the time & no amount of revisionist bullshit will make me change my mind.

They were a one-hit wonder. 'Love Missile F1-11' was a great track and video but the albums were a huge disappointment. Don't blame it on the press.

Tony James is bloody awesome