Jason williamson

Oh boy, at age 16 I can almost divvy my interests up as a 70/30 focus on the world. Seventy per cent was music. I was playing in a punk rock band, while also playing in a Joy Division-inspired new wav

I went to art school to be a painter. Mick Jones went to art school to put a band together. My friend was invited to try out as drummer for Mick’s band, London SS, and I went to support him. They drag

By the time I’m 16, I am starting to develop a certain aesthetic revolving around beat literature and beat poetry. I’m starting to like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, so there’s a certain whiff of decadence in

My main preoccupation at 16 was having friends, and having a boyfriend. My friends were sort of outsiders also. I went to a lab school at UCLA, University of California, and it was all learn by doing,

Mathew Cartlidge quit school before his GCSEs to commit to the band he formed with his sister. “It wasn’t really a big decision to me,” 17-year-old Cartlidge says. “I was always pretty serious about i

It was in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where Reg, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, played by John Cleese, asks his followers “What have the Romans ever done for us?” Amusingly his disciples