'It's a Monday afternoon, and the neatly turned-out female members of Ladytron are drinking Bailey's from champagne glasses in Mira's Shoreditch flat. Piles of records are stacked up against the minibar, and Helen has brought along a few of her favourites to play over the course of the afternoon. Amongst them are Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody and Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is a Place on Earth. "That's me when I was younger," says Helen, who is a classically trained pianist. "Michael Jackson - why not? I would wake up, get ready for school, and listen to the Bangles, Carly Simon and Abba. Then when I got older and more sophisticated, it was Madonna and Michael Jackson."'

Excerpt from Ladytron's Home Entertainment.