It was a surprise, (Catherine Wheel’s singer) Dickinson says, to see audiences going berserk for Catherine Wheel standards like “Black Metallic” during his initial run of live dates for ‘Fresh Wine for the Horses’.
That, combined with recent conversations with fannish members of Death Cab for Cutie and Interpol – who told an awed Dickinson that “without Chrome, our second record, their band wouldn’t exist” – has given him a renewed appreciation for his time in Catherine Wheel.