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When I was 14 I was playing in my first punk band called The Flat Batteries and we were really terrible, I walked into Skinny’s Music, my favourite record store in Brisbane, and they were playing a record by Billy Bragg. I’d never heard of him and it immediately caught my attention. I used the $28 I’d saved up from slicing bread for months after school at the local bakery and my $2 for the bus home and bought it for $29.95. It was everything I loved about music; he wasn’t a great singer and he was pretty average on guitar but his songs made me feel something. As I walked towards the Victoria Bridge home (as I’d used my bus money on the album) I decided I was determined to learn how to write songs like this. I’ll never forget this day as I was asked by three junkies for some change and I gave them my remaining five cents and then they proceeded to follow me, rough me up and try to throw me over the side of the bridge and steal my bag and my broken Nokia. I think the fact they didn’t