Musings on the byways of popular culture
Ulster punk legend and muli-instrumentalist Glenn Kingsmore – The Defects, Ashanti, currently drumming with Henry Cluney in XSLF etc. – has a new solo album out later this year, ‘Cairn Holy’, a homage to Scotland.
He’s just shared this song and SAHB-filled video from it, a doff of the cap to Alex Harvey. He has a knack for a memorable tune.
…Dave McLarnon’s Shock Treatment, featuring a penetrating interview (by Coughing Colin H) with Dave McLarnon on the sofa plus Bazza McIlheney interviewed in the recording studio, with footage of the Treatment making their sensational comeback album ‘Exclusive Photos’. In the comments…
I discovered I had an inherited reel to reel tape of a BBC Radio Ulster broadcast from (I’m guessing) 1978, which I doubt is in the BBC archive. I’ve just digitised it. Think of it as a podcast. It’s a fascinating half-hour.
Interviewees include John Peel, Dave Robinson (Stiff), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Terri Hooley (Good Vibes), Cliff Moore (It Records), various Outcasts, Rudi, Undertones members… and someone from the Dougie Briggs Band, who appear to have occupied a space in the NI ecosystem similar to Eddie & the Hot Rods in London (between pub rock and punk) and, unless I’m mistaken, are now forgotten. Similarly, I believe the presenter here is Mike Kerr – purveyor of a very specific kind of ‘BBC Northern Ireland’ plumminess of voice particular to the 70s and 80s – who is also, as far as I’m aware, a forgotten figure.
Enjoy.
https://soundcloud.com/colinh-1/from-them-to-us-ulster-punk-doc-radio-ulster-c1978
