What is it that made you go from the gay world that was, in your experience, not so conscious into more conscious spaces? What was your path through that?

It's a long, windy, topsy-turvy, upside-down, inside-out path.

So I started going out into Soho when I was 17.

This is before...

this was even an idea the smartphone I remember having my little Nokia brick phone at that stage and I started off in Soho in the gay bars.

I very quickly discovered the after-party scene in Vauxhall, which is where I got into my first dabblings of taking drugs.

And to cut a long story short, I was partying in that way for a good 10, 11, 12 years, going out every weekend, starting on a Thursday, getting home on a Monday, drinking, smoking, taking all of the drugs regularly.

Is this something that you see as well?