My main preoccupation at 16 was leaving school because I really didn’t like it. I was a bit rudderless. I was smoking and drinking and I had quite a longstanding girlfriend. I didn’t really care enough about what I was doing at school. I had one of those sliding doors moments when I went to see my guidance teacher and she said there was a youth training scheme that would pay £33 a week. The two available were a mechanic or a library assistant. I thought, I’ve never even looked under the bonnet of a car but I have read a book, so I’ll be a library assistant. And that was me for the next five years.
And I was still going to see a lot of bands then. I saw Big Country five times, I loved Stuart Adamson. On TV I was really into . I loved
