I thought, no, IвЂ™m just gonna keep going. He tried as part of a band, learnt to write songs, lived in Brixton for a time, moved to Nottingham, played acoustic guitar, moved on to electronica. He set out with the idea that you had to be famous by 24 or it was too late. I can get pissed and stoned, I donвЂ™t have to be so disciplined.вЂќ (ThatвЂ™s all changed, by the way: Williamson has stopped drinking and taking drugs in the past few years.) I could sing, so I thought, IвЂ™m laughing, musicвЂ™ll be easy. Abandoning plans to be an actor, and inspired by The Stone Roses, Paul Weller and Britpop, he thought, вЂF**k this, IвЂ™m gonna join a band. He tried to get into drama schools, but вЂњit was just a no-goвЂќ.

In between, still nursing dreams of Hollywood, he went back to college for three years to take GCSEs and a theatre studies A-level. It introduced him to unskilled labour, which he did for the next 20 odd years вЂ“ вЂњI did warehouse work, had a job as a chef in Little Chef, worked as a security guard, then moved into fashion retail вЂ“ I was always into clothes вЂ“ worked my way up to managerial positions in a couple of them, got the sack all the time.вЂќ вЂњI really did learn a lot about life there,вЂќ he says. This is how bleak it was, f**king horrible.вЂќ He signed on for a while, briefly went back to college, dropped out, and worked in a factory making microwave meals for Marks & Spencer. The headmaster was like, youвЂ™re s**t anyway, you may as well just go, donвЂ™t bother with exams. вЂњIвЂ™d been caught trying to pierce my mateвЂ™s ear in the toilet. вЂњI got kicked out in April 1987,вЂќ he says. Despite his verbal dexterity, though, he left school early. ItвЂ™s a singular talent that can make something as simple as вЂњwho knewвЂќ on the song вЂњKebab SpiderвЂќ sound like a chorus that has been sitting there like a pound coin on the pavement just waiting to be picked up. Williamson has an ear for the poetry of everyday speech. So when youвЂ™ve got someone like Johnson or Farage, who really did strike a chord with a lot of people because of the nationalism thing, of being patriotic, itвЂ™s basic maths, innit вЂ“ вЂyeah, I f**kinвЂ™ love EnglandвЂ™.вЂќ This idea of a smaller world, of globalisation, of Europe, itвЂ™s just, вЂwhat the f**kвЂ™s that?вЂ™, itвЂ™s a million miles away from them. He continues: вЂњItвЂ™s a mindset people in small towns and a lot of working class people have, people who donвЂ™t leave the local area, these people live hard lives. He thinks a lot of Leave voters had a вЂњf**k the EUвЂќ attitude, because вЂњthey havenвЂ™t got an option to go over to Spain or Germany to work, these things are completely f**king unimaginable, you know, so no wonder they were alienated from itвЂќ. вЂњI reckon thereвЂ™ll be quite a few riots eventually, when more cuts are made, because the poor are gonna get it in the neck, arenвЂ™t they? Somewhere along the line youвЂ™re gonna get someone on an estate just kicking off, and itвЂ™s gonna do it like it did in Tottenham.вЂќ That said, he can see that emotions are starting to boil up.

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