Zoe Lyons

My accent was always one country behind where I was living. I was born in Wales, moved to Ireland, to England and then to Scotland so it was always trying to catch up. As a kid, you always feel like an outsider and I guess I was lonely at school. Maybe that is why I was such a dreamer. I loved music but was not the least bit musical, loved art and photography but was not the least bit artistic. I was the kid who hoped to run away and join an Andy Warhol-type scene but just didn’t have any of the skills required, except for an adventurous spirit.

Because at that point I was struggling with my sexuality and did not know how my life was going to pan out, how I would cope with it, or how people around me would cope. Homosexuality was really not embraced or encouraged. People didn’t