'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’
The first time I had my name mentioned in a newspaper was when I won a copy of the Squeeze album, ‘Sweets From A Stranger’, in a competition run by The Evening Echo in Cork during the summer of 1982. We’d just completed our second year in secondary school and yet a few of us... Continue Reading →
‘Well, the Jacks are back. And what an All-Ireland we have for you tonight’. As opening gambits go, Bono’s introduction to the partisan hordes at Croke Park just after 8.30 p.m. on a sticky June evening in 1985 had a familiar peel. Eight years previously, Phil Lynott had marked Dublin’s All-Ireland football semi-final victory over Kerry with... Continue Reading →
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