Sixteen was an interesting age for me, because it was the first year that I knew I wanted to make music. I hadn’t actually told anybody about it yet. Nirvana had just blown my mind – I’d seen them live in 1992 in Belfast. So I was pretty certain that the thing I saw that guy Kurt Cobain do up there, that’s what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. But I wasn’t sure that I was ever gonna get to do it, obviously. I got a guitar for Christmas when I was 14. One of those where you get the guitar and the amp. My dad found it in the back of a newspaper, something like that. It was a wee tiny amp. And I wish I still had it. I don’t know where it went. But it was the best-sounding thing.
I was listening
