Mark Jay met the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood and Sid Vicious when he was fourteen.
At the same time his mother met an ultra-orthodox Jewish man who plunged Mark’s teenage life into a religious world he hated.
Punk was offering Mark an alternative and more exciting life, into which his creativity prospered.
Mark’s novel captures this conflict between family, friends, religion, punk and creativity. The conflict never ends, and in this interview Mark talks of being a Jewish Outsider,
Mark progressed from Skum fanzine and discusses his progression into creative world of graphic art, filming, how 30’s Jewish Anarchists taught him the positive side in Blooms restaurant, his hatred of Zionism and love of Judaism, the Sex Pistols’ June 1977 Jubilee boat party, and his love of discovering new creators.
Clips of the boat party courtesy Alex Punk.
