Neil  One night we ended up going on the town with Chris Evans and Gazza and Chris's sister Victoria. The day had started with us appearing on Richard and Judy and carried on from there: it was a long night and we ended up at Justine Frischmann's house, who was still going out with Damon Albarn, and there was a guy in the basement of the house, who may have been one of Weezer; and we went downstairs and started doing ajam session. Anyway, the following day someone reminded me that the song we'd been jamming had been called 'Disco potential', though I couldn't remember it at all, and I thought it was a good title. Not long afterwards we were in the studio doing b-sides for 'Somewhere' and I couldn't remember any of the jam but I used the title. The music is Chris being The Chemical Brothers.

Chris It's more The Prodigy than The Chemical Brothers. It's more 'Fire starter'.

Neil  There's also something in this that's a kind of reference to 'Discotheque' by U2 which was out at the time. I think it's supposed to sound a bit like Bono really doing disco. The words are about Tamara Beck with. Chris and I had seen a documentary about Tamara Beckwith on the television, and we loved the fact that they used to call Fulham Road 'the beach'. 'I'm just going down the beach,' they used to say, because it's got all the trendy shops on it.

Chris It shows they've got a sense of humour.

Neil  'Daddy sells shares in a distant shore' has something to do with what Tamara Beckwith's father did, but I've never quite worked out what the 'disco potential' line means.