

These occupations betrayed a similar pattern: Initial enthusiasm, bemusement, claustrophobic terror.Įurope beckoned. I played Querelle in an avant-garde Mime Company for three years, performing a controversial adaptation of Genet’s novel banned by the Scottish Kirk. I was the singer and songwriter in the punk band, the Androids. As a youth, I tried a few different career paths: labourer, clerk, gardener, salesman, barman, doorman.


I hitched from the southern tip of Spain to the northern flats of Holland with a fiver sewn in my jacket, worked the Paris Metro as a busker and bottled Cafes in the south of France, Belgium and Holland, picked grapes near Perpignon, swam naked in mountain pools. These occupations betrayed a similar pattern: Initial enthusiasm, bemusement, claustrophobic terror.
