![]() ![]() If you asked for that where I was from, they’d have had you sectioned, but suddenly there were kids from pokey council flats all over London coming together with energy, intelligence and humour. It wasn’t like music now, where well-off kids have three years and a flat in Notting Hill to make a go of it. When my mate John Lydon (3) told me he was joining a band called the Sex Pistols, he might as well have said he was becoming a 747 pilot, because working-class kids like us just didn’t do that. I wanted to pay respect to that era, as someone who was involved in it. The new single, Let’s Go Psycho, is my tongue-in-cheek punk song about a “suburban yob”. ![]() ![]() We’ve done Liquidator, the Midnight Cowboy theme and a reggae version of the Sweeney theme tune – all the stuff that turned me on to playing. There’s an 80s disc, an ambient spoken-word disc, a world roots disc. Stuff from my 36 years in music: back to Public Image Limited and my half-a-dozen purple patches since. You’re about to tour with Invaders of the Heart for the first time in 20 years (2), prior to releasing ReDux, a mammoth – gulp – 6 CD box set. ![]()
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