int: did you always recognize the potential in each other, i always think that is kind of one of the…

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int: did you all the time acknowledge the potential in one another, i all the time assume that is sort of one of many key elements of a friendship, when you'll be able to acknowledge totally different strengths in one another that you simply admire?

damon: he was principally one of many only people who would really like, fuck with me, - to use a… i’d have not likely used that type of phrase - yeah, i used to be only a actual oddball of a kind. bullied quite a bit, for doing issues slightly in another way and graham was far more kind of typical, within the context that his mother and father lived just behind the varsity, he truly lived there, he’d gone to main faculty there, which makes an enormous difference once you go to secondary faculty, if you simply come out of nowhere into that, and all of these type of relationships have been type of shaped already.
and the first summer time i obtained to essex for some cause, i did that one yr at main faculty there, and i did this thing the first or 2nd day that i used to be there, i type of ate a ladybird at break after which it was like, ‘oi! new boy, eat one other ladybird!’. that was the beginning of it, things may need been very totally different if i hadn’t eaten that ladybird, i imagine. i’ve by no means eaten a ladybird since… i was just displaying off, i had a problem, i used to point out off rather a lot, it jarred with individuals, understandably. as a result of i got here from leytonstone, i was an city child i wasn’t a country child.
…and i had a violin, my dad drove a lada.

int: right. however graham saw these as strengths, i feel, and thought 'that is my sort of man…’

damon: we just obtained on brilliantly, you already know, greatest associates. for the entire time we have been in class.

and there was this portakabin outdoors the music and artwork block, and we have been allowed to go in there and play, it had a piano and keyboard, and graham had a saxophone and drums, we used to play music.

damon talking to the tape notes podcast.

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