Stuart Braithwaite fronts a band of Kubrick-loving noise terrorists who wrote a tribute tune to the director last year.

"Stanley Kubrick was probably the best director of the last century. I wasn't even born when it came out, but my favourite film of his was A Clockwork Orange, because I think it's the one that most convincingly portrays a different reality altogether. And ther's no flaws in it at all. There's a kind of classicism to it - even though it's stylised, it's stylised in its own way, not around any standards or precedents of the time. The only thing that's tied to fashion is the guy's pants - I watched it about four nights ago and I noticed he's got a really bad pair of Y-fronts.

A lot of films about youth culture just reflect youth culture, but A Clockwork Orange is one of the only films that created a youth culture that never existed. That in itself, the fact that it wasn't based on anything, appeals to musicians. Plus there's always a forbidden fruit element to anything that's been banned or frowned upo by the establishment. It's generally a good consensus that if The Man says you're not allowed to see something then you probably should. In this case it wasn't the establishment banning it, but they would have banned it anyway when Thatcher came in, with all her video nasty stuff.

It says a lot about the British mentality that he only withdrew it here. But he lived here and it was probably a bit too close to home, and I heard rumours about death threats and people sending him videos of melons being blown apart with phototcopies of his face attached to it. He was such a private person, he thought people didn't understand. They were revelling in the violence rather than being appalled by it."