'I was blown away by the music scene in Brighton'

When I first arrived in England I was overwhelmed by the music scene in the UK. I had been brought up in 1970s South Africa where the edgiest music to be heard on the apartheid-controlled Springbok Radio included the Bee Gees and Olivia Newton-John. On the pirate LM Radio, broadcast on the crackling shortwave band from neighbouring Mozambique, we could listen to The Beatles who were banned from South African airwaves after John said they were more popular than Jesus and that the Christian faith