‘At gigs we’d see all these punk kids from small towns who weren’t part of the metropolitan elite. I thought: “These people need a song”’
I was 19 and living a double life. Night-time punk rocker, then I’d flatten my hair down with water and go to work in the bank in the daytime. The original punk scene was about 200 to 300 people in
London and Manchester, but once we started doing gigs we saw all these kids from small towns who weren’t part of the metropolitan elite and wanted to be part of it. I thought: “These people need a song.”