"The name stuck when we started full time with a £40 a week Enterprise Allowance. We went for our first gig on the Tyne & Wear Metro and carried our props downhill from Four Lane Ends station to Long Benton Community Centre. As with any poverty stricken group, we had fallings-out over minor things, and the other three went on to be actors in the theatre. But I'd become increasingly disillusioned and bored with most of what I saw on stage. I preferred to see people who are multi-talented, sing, dance, play instruments, tell stories. What I like then, I like now. It's entertaining."

"Elaine and I wanted to take Dodgy Clutch in a different direction. Inspired by John Fox, and big, spectacular French and Spanish street theatre we started to do outdoor things with large models or puppets and tell a story about them. And that's how we went on. You could recount the History of Dodgy Clutch through a Hundred Incredible Objects."