'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
This, our latest guest post came about on the back of a Twitter exchange after Colm's most recent post, The Smiths in Cork, 1984 That exchange included contributions from Denis Carroll, a massive fan of The Smiths and Morrissey, who posted some great pictures and told a great story in the form of a number of... Continue Reading →
It was shortly after midnight, early on Wednesday morning, July 29th, 1987, and it was Mark Cagney, host of ‘The Night Train’ on RTÉ Radio 2FM who, as serenely as ever, broke the news. Home alone, and with the rest of my family off on holidays, I’d been in the habit of keeping the radio on longer... Continue Reading →
Our latest guest post comes courtesy of Irish Rock legend, BP Fallon. It's a lovely heartfelt piece about Henry McCullough, another Irish rock legend and close, close friend of BP. A little background as to where this post actually came from. I had a recommendation to check out a track. It was a track by BP... Continue Reading →
The last time I got beyond the gates of The Cork County Cricket Club, on that magnificent, tree-lined stretch out in the west of the city, a small group of us were making an unofficial, no-budget video for ‘The Summerhouse’ by The Divine Comedy. The last shot in that clip, which was for the fledgling No... Continue Reading →
In December, 1992, the Cork-born showband singer, Tony Stevens, sustained multiple injuries when the van in which he was travelling back home after a show in the West of Ireland was involved in a serious road collision. He spent the best part of a year recovering in hospital, endured many subsequent years when he was physically unable to... Continue Reading →
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