A former Grange Hill star, a throng of spandex-clad dancers and a man gyrating in what seems to be a studded Roman centurion’s loincloth: Stereolab weren’t exactly playing to their high-minded home crowd the night they appeared on Channel 4’s notorious post-pub variety show The Word. Watch the footage 32 years later, and it’s hard to know what’s more ferocious – the full-pelt version of their 1993 track French Disko or the eye-rolling disdain singer Laetitia Sadier patently has for the whole scene. Yet the urgency transmitted through the cascading harmonies of Sadier and her bandmate Mary Hansen is undimmed, the message – “I say there are things still worth fighting for” – culminating in a single ringing call to arms: “La Resistance! La Resistance!”