Phil Oakey: "I love club culture"

Phil Oakey has claimed that club music is "the most exciting ever".

The Human League songwriter made the comments while speaking to The Quietus about his band's upcoming album Credo, their first since 2001's Secrets.

Oakey said: "I love club culture. I became single about ten years ago, so suddenly I wasn't forced to be home at a certain time any more and it was just when Gatecrasher was on its second wave, when Paul Van Dyk and people like that were huge.

"We got to know the guys who owned it and all the DJs and this connected me back to the music I used to buy when I was younger... even to Terry Riley and Philip Glass."

He added: "I think clubbing music is the most exciting ever but clubbing music now is only really the same as when the Bee Gees came out. It was so exciting when disco started. It meant that much to people, that they could dance to it.

"The first single that we released ['Night People'] from Credo was not designed to go on the radio - it was designed to go into clubs, to have remixes, but suddenly it's a single and it got played on Radio 2. What's the point? There's no-one listening to that kind of music on Radio 2. It's really strange."