y the time I was 16 I was desperate to learn to drive and have the Anstruther didn’t have a cinema, so my dad started to run this big projection system in the function suite of the [Bowman family-run] hotel, mostly for putting the football on at weekends. But on a Saturday morning he set up a little film club and put on stuff like and . It was amazing to have that; I would sit and help him stamp people’s membership cards when they came in, things like that. And there was always music around, with my mum taking me to gigs and the bands playing at the hotel every Saturday. There would be little folk nights in the cocktail bar, road shows from different radio stations coming in, street parties to celebrate anything that we possibly could – so there was this constant musical soundtrack in my life.
