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Did it ever feel like the track was over-taking the two of you in any sense?
Ìý Dave: I think it did, yeah, at one point. A lot of people at one time hadn't heard of Soft Cell, but had heard of 'Tainted Love', and I think we got a bit fed up with it. We went through a bit of a petulant stage, when we refused to play it live. But, I think we're big enough now to play it live. I don't think either of us would go home and put that record on though. It's not something I would listen to for pleasure now. [Laughs]
Marc: It's just something that has taken on a life of it's own and belongs to the public now. It doesn't feel like ours now when we perform it. We have our hardcore fans that will know every track on every album, but there's a whole other audience that just know us for that or just the biggest hits that we've had. So, I think it kinda belongs to the public in that way really.

Getting back to 'The Night', it does have a very electro-clash feel. Looking back, do you see yourselves as the founders of that sort of thing?
Dave: I think we were probably among some of the originals. I mean obviously there was Human League and Cabaret Voltaire. I don't know whether it's down to synchronicity or what, but there just seemed to be a new kind of wave in music at the time. There were people from Sheffield, us from Leeds, but it just seemed like a new movement at the time. Everyone was thinking up their own ideas though.
Marc: Soft Cell were always very song orientated though. Strong songs and choruses have always been very important to us. Maybe that makes us a bit old fashioned in a way, I don't know ... The thing about electro-clash though is that it brings really great beats and sounds and it's very visual and theatrical, something that's missing now really. There seems to be a real lack of strong songs or anthems at the moment. Fischerspooner had 'Emerge' and Ladytron are doing things that are kinda crossing over with pop, but I think a lot of stuff at the moment is in danger of becoming another passing, underground fad, never really making it's mark as a strong musical movement.

Do you think then that songs lack a certain sense of story now?
Marc: I think it's about beats, sounds and effects and in a way now, you could say it's all about presentation without any of this substance. We really need some strong songs to come from the electro-clash thing, it won't make it's mark otherwise.