David Morrissey

And I bought the album and then I've taken it with me everywhere.

And it's Keith Jarrett's Clone Concert.

At that time, Thatcher brought in this thing called Youth Opportunity Programmes, YOPs, and they were basically to take people off the dole.

You got paid £23.50, I think, but if you left your hometown, you got paid £28.00.

And a couple of my mates had found this it was called volunteers in another city or something like that and they couple of my mates just decided to Apply for it and I applied for it and it was this theater company zip and we got there and they were great it was for drama students from Birmingham we've got together formed their own company and

We did a little bit of acting, but really what we did was we made the set, we made the costumes, we toured with them.

They toured all these Midlands sort of venues.

Well, the Panto was the big thing.

Yeah, we did Mother Goose.

The main actor in it was the guy who ran the company called John Lingard Lane, and he was like Mother Goose, and he wasn't going to let you get anywhere near a gag, and he was brilliant.

And we would do a children's sort of party in the morning,

Maybe like a school in the afternoon.

But in the evening, we do these working men's clubs.

And the show, you can imagine, changed during the day.

Yeah, it was a revelation to see it.

But he was amazing.

And I was there for six months.

I was away from home.

That was difficult.

I found that very difficult.