The only thing that's changed is that the recognition of music has become more spread out through the generations. When we started it was just Cilla (
Cilla Black) and
The Beatles but now you've got
The Zutons and the lass from
Girls Aloud. There's always someone in each generation of music from Liverpool, whereas with us, we were there and then there was a big gap. We rolled it on a bit. The bands that came after us have very different sounds. I get worried that people say it's a guitar city; it's actually just a live music city. We were making music written by someone from the city, it was produced by a guy from the city, We were still making the music and I think what's really strange though is that we're the last band to have a number one from Liverpool. It's been ten years! I think I like that! Someone told me it was in a national newspaper.
