Fisherspooner frontman Casey Spooner chatted to Skrufff recently about the pioneering electroclash band’s upcoming album Entertainment and revealed that’s he’s as happy now as he’s been at any point in his career. “I’m turning 40 next year it’s good,” said Casey. “I feel strong, stronger. I’ve been around the block and I now know. I’ve done it. I’ve been on the top and I’ve been at the bottom, I’ve been all around,” he mused.

“I think at this stage you learn what’s important and how to relate to people better. I just want to trust my instincts now, in a funny way, whereas before I was never sure on what to do or how to do it. You know yourself better,” he said. “Looking back I think our first live performance as Fischerspooner was exciting, a kind of personal breakthrough for me,” he recalled. “I had been struggling for years as a performer and as an artist to find some kind of art form that I could really be expressive with, that would embrace all of my interests and all of my skills. I tried to be a painter, a photographer, an actor, a model, it was like nothing really clicked until this project, then, all of a sudden I could create images, be a performer and have all of my interest combined into this one thing,” he said.

However, Casey remained less enthusiastic about the press attention Fischerspooner gained when their million dollar Ministry Of Sound record deal was leaked to the press, by a fellow loose talking electroclash star. “Later on it became very hard for us to live down that number, it was something that really changed people’s perception of us. It sounds like a lot more money than it ever was,” Casey sighed. “In a way I didn’t mind, because I liked the fact that we created this fantasy of rising out from nothing and all the parallels with the Sex Pistols and the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, being the most bizarre pop phenomenon and so on, but the fact remains that I didn’t have a choice about that story coming out.”

“And probably I would have kept it quiet if left to my own devices. It still haunts us. This time around, when we asked some people to work with us they refused because of the history of that deal, because they felt that we were going to expect a lot; that we were going to be expensive,” he added.