‘I don’t need things. I have two suitcases with everything in’

Tristan Verran aka performer Tommy Poppers says he is ‘poor’ but is happy on £12,000-£14,000 a year. This is how he manages
I lead a very different life now to that of my 20s and 30s, when I used to run bars and club nights and I over-consumed. Sex, parties, drugs, alcohol and cigarettes – you name it, I exhausted it all. I must have spent about £100 a week on cigarettes alone.Everything changed after I was seriously assaulted and ended up in hospital. That wa