During the Punk heyday in London in the late-1970s, Deborah, or Debbie,
Wilson was known as Debbie Juvenile: a famous member of the so-called
Bromley Contingent, which included Siouxsie Sioux and Billy Idol. Alex
Cox got in touch with Debbie while writing his feature Sid and Nancy,
and in this way Debbie got into filmmaking. While Sid and Nancy was
being cut Debbie worked with Daoud Sarhandi on the editing of the Sid
and Nancy making-of documentary England's Glory, produced by Alex Cox
and directed by Martin Turner.
Punk made me want to go and do things. It's definitely had a lasting effect on me. Everything I've done since has related to it in some way.
People think the early days of Punk were all banging along at Sex Pistols gigs. But for me it was camping it up down Park Lane with a gang of trannies.