Stephen Jones

And I went to the punks because I thought,

They were the cool people, but they looked more interested.

And one of them, this girl called Shan, and she was in the band called the Nippler Actors, and was an extraordinary punk.

So, you know, two years later,

in a way by the late seventies punk really for us was dead.

And we were trying to find something else.

So that's when we sort of really became new romantics or we were, we were, it was certainly, it was new wave, which was all fluorescence and geometry and Bauhaus.

And then

People started to be interested in historicism, I think.

And that was when there was convergence of the Blitz and I was living in Warren Street.

Well, I wasn't living in Warren Street.

I had a workroom in Warren Street.

I was actually living in Pimlico then.

And it was an extraordinary place.

And we all really supported each other.

Yeah.

But we never imagined that X years later there'd be an exhibition at the Design Museum all about us.

Yeah.

I mean, extraordinary how life worked out.

What kind of bad manners got you somewhere?