'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
Johnny Marr’s kept his Into Paradise hang-ups very quiet, hasn’t he ? The Dublin band, who endured for the guts of a decade from the mid-1980s, were one of the first acts signed to Keith Cullen’s then-fledgling Setanta Records imprint and paved a path on many levels for a far better known slew who... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ojwffp8r8 Next week I’ll take the long walk down the quay to see Morrissey perform live for the umpteenth time. It’s more of a duty than anything else at this stage, I think: like my annual subscription to the Resident’s Association here, none of whom I really know, whose purpose I don’t really understand and... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uImrH3X-TMI 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... Continue Reading →
One of the many memorable passages in Johnny Marr’s recent autobiography, ‘Set The Boy Free’, recalls a visit the author made to Matt Johnson’s London flat in 1982, back when he was still in his teens and his band, The Smiths, had recorded what would become it’s first single, ‘Hand In Glove’. Johnson was a... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPrDNPC4ZY Johnny Rogan’s ‘The Severed Alliance’ was the first in-depth biography of The Smiths and, consequently, generated much reaction, not least of all from Morrissey, its loudest central character. Published in May, 1992, five years after the band split on the eve of the release of its fifth studio album, ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’, the... Continue Reading →
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