The Lightning Seeds - ready or not, 1996

"But the real black mark is in not including the single version of Ready Or Not. La la la la. But that really is nitpicking in the extreme, so I’ll just be happy that there’s a new compilation out that I can play in the CD player player player player player (remember those? Ask your Dad) in my car to replace my knackered copy of Like You Do… Best of the Lightning Seeds."

Sarah Cracknell - ready or not, 1997

"When bandmates Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley took time out in 1996 to set up their own label, Cracknell took the opportunity to record her solo debut Lipslide (which came out in Britain in 1997, albeit with slightly different tracks). As Cracknell commented in an interview in the English press, this project was in part motivated by being tired of "people assuming that I was just a frontperson for Bob and Pete, that I was a puppet, that I didn't do any of the real work."