“My dad was into bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, which, if you would, you could consider prog bands. That was probably the start of my understanding of quite complex layers of music.
“Camembert Electrique and the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy are incredible.”
“When I was in my late teens I started to go to central Birmingham and got involved with the punk scene. The scene wasn’t isolated - there were also a lot of hippies involved and a lot of my friends crossed over between the two things. I started going to those drug-heavy, invite-only parties and I would turn up with these hippie friends of mine, expecting it to be like a reggae party, but a lot of the times they would be playing really weird stuff, like Ozric Tentacles, Gong or Cardiacs. They really liked their prog!