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"right, whatever Monogram ask us to do, we'll do" and see if we can get round the fact that Radio 1 aren't playing them. So we did it and we've done it once and we'll not be fucking doing it again ! DJ) I didn't see it live, but somebody sent: me a video of it. You looked so out of place, you looked like you were trying to be serious in a way... SA) ... in the wrong place... DJ) .. on a childrens programme. SA) It just doesn't work for us at all, but by the same token it's not any different from Top of the Pops. DJ) No, except a lot more people watch and see Top of the Pops. SA) Just as well, isn't it: ! That was not a high point of my career, I have to say that, but you have to try and get round the Radio 1 thing somehow DJ) You've done stuff for Radio 1, you and Bruce went to Arbroath last year for the Roadshow and did an accoustic version of "Peace in our Time" and yet Radio I seem to have this thing about... SA) Well , it's just the people producing the programme. I know for a fact.... first of all we should have done "Heart of the World" for the first single last year•. DJ) Rather than "Save Me" ? SA) Yeah, .1 thought that at the time, before they even came out and there was a big huge rumpus and everything about it and the people at Phonogram said they wanted "Save Me" first. I also know for a fact: that if it had. been played on Radio 1 it would have been a hit. I'm positive, 'cos everybody I know and people who don't even like the band who heard the single, liked it. NR) It got a better response at the concerts than "Save Me". DJ) The people 1 talk to and through the fanzine, the general consensus was that "Heart" was much the