My fondest memory of this track is playing all the instruments on it and being delighted with my drum take that I’d done in one go. It doesn’t make sense in this era of streaming and the resurgence of vinyl, however the idea of this track is to reinforce the idea that the album was a skit of a conceptual record, not in fact one itself, which is obviously a paradox, which my younger self would have thought hilarious. The audio has been fully remastered from the original master tapes by long-time Mansun collaborator P-Dub (Björk).

We recorded a 32 piece orchestra on this track which we didn’t even use in the end, such was the avarice of the era, you can hear the recording on the outtakes disc. Although this song sat neatly with the narrative of the plot, I thought I’d challenge my own rule on this song, I remember the chorus being really emotional, and it still feels like that now. In the US, Mansun enjoyed their only chart success with "Wide Open Space" reaching the modest position of No.It's Kscope 1175 and is the usual 12 songs ( 11 standard tracks with 6 on side one and the usual 5 plus the " hidden track" making a total of 6) but only on one 12" record. After a lot of head scratching it was cut down to seven minutes for the album and finally to a three minute radio track to accompany the fantastic promo video shot by Roman Coppola. Again, ploughing the religious imagery on this track, this song wasn’t immediately a huge hit but seems to be remembered along with ‘Taxloss’ as the most well-known on the album.

The majority of the record is centred on the concept of a superhero, known as "The Grey Lantern", in the guise of Draper himself. The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which "Egg Shaped Fred" was released a year prior. They released four classic albums – Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), Six (1998), Little Kix (2000) and the compilation Kleptomania following the band’s split – as well as a popular and now rare series of EPs. We originally recorded this song with a hip hop groove and some exceptional swearing that was rejected by the record company, these versions appear on the outtakes disc of the box set and its really interesting to hear these early versions and how we finally arrived at the finished version of this song that closed the album.It was complex to work out how to piece all this together, like a jigsaw, but great fun, the mastering engineer didn’t think so though.