The thing in the video about him standing completely still while everything else goes crazy around him is pretty much the Spiritualized stage show, except he stands downstage right, directly in front of his amp, and faces toward the center of the stage instead of the audience. The whole conceit of passion/emotion v. control is pretty central to most of their songs up til the last record or so.
I think I spent most of the late '90s discussing Mr. Pierce with my old roommate.