The Pin Group: Complete Interview with Roy Montgomery Tell me about your early exposure to music (both listening and playing). I understand your mother worked for the British Forces Network radio station and that you were in a teenage group called the Psychedeliks? I lived in Cologne, Germany until shortly before my fifth birthday. Although the "Allied occupation" was more or less over the Anglo-American cultural colonisation of Germany, the condition that many German filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s used as a launching point for their work, was still in full swing. I don't remember the oompah, thigh-slapping "schmaltz" music that bedevilled popular local music. I remember Elvis and rock and roll when I try to recall Germany. The Psychedeliks were a band in name only and I think I was pre-teen, technically speaking. The only one with an actual instrument was me. I had a Diplomat six-string electric bought from Sedley Wells as a package with an amplifier that dated back to the late 1940s and which took about a week to warm up). I couldn't play guitar at all at the time but I did come up with the band name and the spelling of it and I decorated the drum kit made out of crates with "crazy" lettering. We were as influenced by the Monkees as we were by anything really countercultural. What was your perception of Christchurch as a teenager in the 1970s? It depends a little on which part of the 1970s you are