The Filth and the Fury Page #2

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# School's out forever! #

I was very quiet at school | up until about 14 or 1 5,

when I decided | I'd had enough.

I knew we were being | fobbed off...

and basically given a shoddy | third-rate version of reality.

So you would not be capable | of questioning your future,

because you didn't have one.

My mother loved Alice Cooper | as much as I did.

She had an extremely | varied taste for everything

from lrish folk music | to T. Rex...

To some early Bowie.

Lots of the heavy metal | that was around at the time,

everything. | Extremely Catholic taste.

# I want all you skinheads | to get up on your feet #

# Put your braces together | and your boots on your feet #

There was a lot of black kids | down Shepherd's Bush,

and we used to go | to their parties

and listen to ska music.

It sort of developed | from there really,

I think, our interest | in music.

I think it was Wally... | the famous Wally Nightingale,

who said, | "Well, let's start a band."

At the time, Wally said | Steve would be the singer,

and I would be on drums.

Wally actually played guitar, | and so it was up to each of us

to go off and learn | our instruments.

We used to rehearse | and rehearse,

and just kind of like, | fantasize, really.

If I wanted to wear something

that T. Rex was wearing | the week before,

I'd go down King's Road | and f***ing steal it.

I always used to end up | at "Let It Rock" which was owned

by Malcolm McLaren | and Vivienne Westwood.

All the other shops we went in | down King's Road,

you'd walk in and you'd get | 1 0 poofs on you,

asking you what you want, | "Can I help you?"

That's why we'd always | end up at Vivienne's,

because it was | like a hang-out.

I liked the clothes, | they were different.

It weren't all flares | and kipper ties.

It was Teddy Boy clothes. | It was a lot more rebellious,

and obviously | I was drawn to that.

The Teddy Boy thing, for me,

was all about the idea | of being a peacock,

and standing out in the crowd, | but at the same time

feeling a sense that you are | part of the dispossessed,

which -- at the end | of my art school term,

I thought I could make | a profit by.

I became friends with Malcolm

because he had a lot | of contacts in music.

He seemed to know everybody.

He finds a way in | with his blague,

which is perfect | for a manager.

I walked up and down | the King's Road

with complete anger | and resentment.

People were extremely absurd,

and still stuck into flares | and platform shoes

and neatly coiffured | longish hair,

and pretending the world | wasn't really happening.

It was an escapism | that I resented.

There was also | a garbage strike

going on for years | and years and years,

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