How did you find the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party?
Very bizarre! Kind of enjoyable in a way. We were sharing a dressing room with Pulp and Menswear. We'd met Pulp before, and they're really nice chaps, a great band. Mark from Take That came up and said “Alright? How ya doin'? Yeah, I really like your stuff” and Verni from Eternal, she's very cool.
Yes, it was a bit bizarre. Particularly the choice of track — My Iron Lung. I think it was cool that we did it, but at the time, when we were looking out, playing it, the kids had been going mad to everything else and when we came on, I don't think they knew what hit them!

The presenters looked a bit stunned!
Yeah, I think Andi what'shis-face made some kind of comment like, “Would you welcome the new Bucks Fizz!”

How did you decide on My Iron Lung?
We were asked to do it, the Smash Hits people wanted us to do it, so that was fine.

"We don't do irony," confirms Ed. "The only times we've tried were when we were in America, where it just goes over everyone's heads, and on 'Pop Is Dead', which was rubbish. Surprisingly, those Saturday morning TV show offers didn't come pouring in."
An offer to play the 1995 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, however, somewhat surprisingly did.
"We had to do that just because it was so bizarre," smiles Ed, whose lanky, grunge heart-throb looks aren't actually so far away from the teen lust object profile. "There was Take That, East 17, Boyzone and us, doing 'My Iron Lung' of all things. We were stood at the side of the stage for half an hour before we went on and it was bedlam -all these girls just screaming and screaming and screaming. And then we went on, there was this awkward silence and then the screaming started again -for entirely different reasons. It seemed like the entire audience suddenly burst into tears, tugged at its mum's sleeve and demanded to be taken to the toilet."