William Reid

When you're coming from a very mainstream household like we grew up in you have to find out for yourself about this other world of books and plays and music and drugs and sex - stuff that's always been there but you never saw much of except when you went to the library. You realise there's this secret society of coolness where there's a guy called William Burroughs who's a morphine addict and he writes these weird junkie books and he killed his wife when he was shooting the apple and you think 'Yeah, these are my people!

we’d be having a laugh in the dressing room, then someone would come in with a camera and we’d all suck our cheeks in and start looking miserable.

Hunter High in East Kilbride was where childhoods went to die.