"The real reason I left the Upstarts was because things became impossible. For a start you live with geezers 24 hour a day, 7 days a week and you get to find out things about them. Things I couldn't put up with, like homosexualism being practiced under the same roof I was sleeping under, which wasn't on. I would like to know, could you tell me, if it's a crime to be in love with a bird. I left the Angelic Upstarts to better myself, because at that time the stuff they were playing at that time was like "Guns for the Afghan Rebels" and that sums it up doesn't it. I'm not into that sort of crap. I'm just trying to make good music and that's why I joined the Rejects, It wasn't all to do with my bird. And I see Glynn Warren's come out of his little shell, it says here (reading issue 3) "Stick's lass was a dead idle", that's a lie, she kept the house immaculate and she never came down for 6 months. They just used her as an excuse. I left them because they were shit. I wouldn't stop to that level to use someones bird as an excuse, I leave that part of peoples lives out. I DIDN'T LEAVE THE UPSTARTS FOR MY BIRD, I LEFT THEM PURELY TO JOIN THE REJECTS. I know the Upstarts are no match for the Rejects at all, the Rejects are 10 times better, whether I was in them or not. I'm glad they found my diary because I did have a bit of a bad time, I couldn't speak to anyone. Well, I could speak to Mensi or maybe Mond but I never got on with Glynn Warren but it got a bit deep and I couldn't speak to anyone. There are few times I've seen Glynn Warren drink a bottle of whiskey and sit and cry over his bird."
"I still respect Mensi, he's a great geezer, and Mond I got on with really well. If it wasn't for Mensi and Mond I wouldn't have got the chance to be where I am today, I even respected them when they brought that single out. Even though it wasn't fair, obviously I had the hump about it like anyone would."
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