All laid out in black and white: Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey speak to Uncut

You both grew up loving The Move: true?

Peter Holsapple: We did. The Move for us were everything. Shazam, Looking On and Message From The Country influenced and informed what we were thinking about musically tremendously. You could barely find those records in the United States, but we sought them out and absorbed every minute.

They put the time in. Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne were trying to follow that restless spirit of making the music evolve. That whole thing of, ‘What’s the next door can we go through?’ With The