Decades, in fact.

I think for us, we, we thought we were like, like a punk Supremes, you know? [laughs] And, uh, I, I mean, I don't see any difference between The Supremes and The Stones or, you know.

Like, just because we were vocalists didn't mean that we weren't intelligent.

But we g- kept being accused of being sort of three bimbos and this kind of thing.

It was very annoying.

People just kind of wrote us off as being dumb and also they assumed we had a Svengali when we didn't.

We ...

For Siobhan Fahey, the new London is like a new start.

That's Siobhan Fahey.

We wanted to be taken seriously, started to write more political lyrics and, um, all of a sudden, I guess we were in our mid-20s.

Life was more serious and, um, it was more of a job and it was more of a struggle having to keep proving yourself and coming up with something that's gonna be taken seriously.

But there was one song that we'd been rehearsing right at the very beginning that we, we'd never recorded, and it was Venus, originally done by Shocking Blue.

And I really wanted to do a version of that with the people who did You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), who made that amazing sounding record, and it turned out it was Waterman, Stock, and Aitken.

And of course, it turned out to be a sparkling gem.

She wants to do her own thing, and I'm gonna start working with her." So after a few weeks, he invited me to come over and meet her and Dave, and that's how it started, through Richard Feldman.

Marcy came from a completely different world of music to me.

Siobhan Fahey literally sitting in the front hall at Decca.

Way before I was e- ever in a band, my mates used to work for NME and my friend Adrian told me there was a job going in the press office at, at Decca Records, which was literally around the corner from the NME.

I got the job apparently because Mick McDonough, who ran the press and promotion department, was, as you can tell by the name, Irish and s- so was I.

[laughs] And I was wearing a green dress, and that's why I got the, the job.

I used to stroll in late, take very long lunches, and then my friend would sit with me on the reception desk and, and chat for the rest of the afternoon.

It was very laid back.

Different days.

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