Notes

The full-length music video begins with footage of misfits dancing to Sorted For E's & Wizz (beginning from "Just keep on moving") before cutting backstage, where the music is muffled. On the Sorted For Films & Vids VHS and the Hits DVD this opening shot is cut, jumping straight to the backstage scene. The widely available Vimeo version online contains the full clip.

Band Comments

Jarvis: "The concept the director had come up with, which we agreed with, was that I was going to play two characters in the video. So I played myself, and then I played this kind of rough guy who was the leader of this gang... we used to call them townies. It's the kind of guy who would go out on a Saturday night and they've all got a sort of short-sleeved shirt on even when it's the middle of winter, and just want to have a fight after the pub. Kind of like that. So I drank about three quarters of a bottle of brandy, and then did my acting bit, and anyway, I got into character, and suddenly the name Darren Spooner(1) came into me mind. I don't know why because I was so drunk, but I guess because it sounds a bit like Jarvis Cocker, it has the same number of syllables. And I became Darren Spooner for that day. And unfortunately when I went home, I couldn't get out of character. My girlfriend at the time came into the flat we shared and I was on the kitchen floor singing "Want To Be Starting Something" by Michael Jackson."

(1) Jarvis would later use the name Darren Spooner when he formed Relaxed Muscle in 2002.

Links

• View it on YouTube.

Related pages

• Videography index
• Mis-Shapes (song)
• Sorted For E's & Wizz / Mis-Shapes (single)