Having put his formal education on hold, Idol was in the front row for the eruption of punk as a constituent of Sex Pistols cheerleading mob the Bromley Contingent. I joined a punk rock group so I didn’t need to do that. After that, if you wanted to come back you could. The thing about Sussex was that they actually liked it if you went there for a year and then went out into the world and worked. Get back up here.” He was talking about the Sex Pistols. One of my friends from Bromley, Steve Bailey – Steve Severin he became, from Siouxsie And The Banshees – sent me a postcard saying: “We’ve seen the band we’ve been waiting for. It’s probably just my imagination doing that to make me feel okay. I don’t really know anything more than that but I’ve always had a comforting feeling about things. Not so much that there’s a god or anything like that, but just that you’re in this world for some reason. I’ve got an Irish background so I can’t help but have a slight mystical belief in things. I suppose that I do have a feeling as if I’m where I should be. What do you think when you look up at the stars and consider your place in the universe? It’s more and more about Being than nothingness, I suppose. I’ve never really known exactly what the existential thing is, one hundred per cent. Very heady.Īre you one to be troubled by existential angst? Do you believe the sun is there? The difference between knowing and believing. It was British philosophy so it was all semantics. There was a smattering of that, because to do the American literature you had to take this philosophy course. You would do American literature as well. The poetry was Alexander Pope, so I was a bit bored with that – I preferred the Romantic poets – but you did Greek theatre and everything. You attended Sussex University for a year. Yeah, it was the Scout summer fair or something and I was snogging this girl on the grass in front of everybody. My mother was very religious, so she was very involved in it all. It broke my mother’s heart because the Scouts were connected to the school, which was C of E. Did that really happen, or was it a bit of myth-making on your part? I read that when you were ten you got kicked out of the Scouts for kissing a girl. We weren’t going to be professional sportsmen. But then, in the third form or so, we really decided that, you know, fuck this. I even played rugby I was a hooker for the first year and after that I was fly-half. I would usually be on the cricket team or the football team. Were you much of a sportsman when you were at school? It was the funniest thing, seeing my mum, a little Irish lady, dealing with these construction people. My mother ran the ladder hire part of that. She actually worked with my dad when he started his own power tool hire/buy company. Then we lived in Dorking for a little while before moving to Goring-by-Sea, outside Worthing, for about eight years. When I was three we went to America for four years. You’d be getting settled and felt like you belonged somewhere, and then we would move, so you’d have to uproot and get to know a whole new set of friends. You grew up all over the place due to your dad’s profession. At one point he worked with medical equipment, those first rippling beds. Not that he was crazy or wild or anything like that. It was like a stage act, if you know what I mean. He was a salesman and he loved that, though I don’t know if it mattered too much to him what he was selling. What values did you learn from your parents?
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