I am sixteen and I sneak into a bar to watch my brother’s band play. I slink in the corner and try to blend in with the booze-stained walls. It is a school night but I am exhilarated and full of inspiration. I am eighteen and study music at university. I attend esoteric and experimental music performances and record nonsense that no-one will ever listen to on vintage cassette tapes. I am twenty-one and have joined my first band, and then I join another. I play shows almost every weekend with my friends. We get drunk and think that, soon, we are going to ‘make it’.