Experience: I’ve seen Status Quo 487 times

Shane Healey: ‘The most shows I’ve seen in one year is 42. It nearly killed me.’ Photograph: Alex Telfer/The Guardian

I went to my first Status Quo gig in December 1986, in Whitley Bay, on Tyneside, at an old ice rink. I was 14. My dad said it was stupid, so my grandad took me. He was practically deaf anyway, so it didn’t bother him. After that, I was hooked.

I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I’ve never touched drugs. My addiction is seeing Status Quo. They’ve been on the go for 55 years and they’ve virtually never stopped touring. They really are – excuse the pun – always rocking all over the world.