Colm Mac Con Iomaire on Dance The Devil

"Although we made the album during a time of constant wars with ZTT, the album evokes generally positive memories for me.
We started it in Sun Studios in Dublin as demos and moved to Blackbox in France, a castle in Navan, a place in London and finished it in SARM, but ZTT didn’t really understand us.
At the time we were into Slint and Sparklehorse and we wanted to make a really dry album like Neil Young’s Harvest. We tried to record it on our own, but bit by bit they wrested control back through Trevor Horn. He had a big input into ‘Pavement Tune’ and ‘God Bless Mum’, but I’m not sure if ZTT ever realised that ‘Pavement Tune’ was really about what was actually going on! We were very proud of the album at the time, and listening back to it recently I really enjoyed it. But we "danced the devil" away from ZTT as soon as we could."