Marc Almond
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
We had such a great reaction from the album in different places that were relaunching it coincide with 10 day stint of concerts i'm doing at the Almeida Theatre in Islington at the end of July.
These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
There's one every single year, but they just seem to make this one album and go.
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
Sometimes you do take your life in your hands going in certain places and it's very unpredictable, but that's thrill of it, the excitement of it all. I do like a little danger in life!!!
Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but i never think about it.
Now I just look at myself as an artist, a songwriter, a performer and i DJ every week now in two or three places.
My next record i really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
It's hard to get around in the daytime in Moscow, it's total traffic and pollution and it becomes a drudgery so you really have to live at night a lot.
It's always nice when you have something that is successful or you're able do something that has that exposure.
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
In the past i've put myself in situations just to inspire me, I do kind of like life.
If i've got a more pop style record to promote you find yourself pushed towards chat shows and things like that.
I've started lyrics but I don't know how i'm producing it yet.