Monday, May 18, 2009
DEVLIN A RED DRESS
Last night we watched a documentary about the Norrrn Irrn music scene which, surprisingly, wasn't called Teenage Kicks ( ... but was called So Hard To Beat which is another line from the same song and therefore is more *knowing* blahdeblah).
... this was the band that drove the Rev. Ian Paisley to drink for the only time in his life. Yeah - the Rev. really DID partake of the Devil's Buttermilk!!
Shame on you, BBC 4.
There were contributions from said Undertones, grouchy old cNut VanTheMan, the bloke who wrote the Bay City Rollers' hits, Brian Kennedy, Bap Kennedy, Bip Kennedy, Bop Kennedy, Jimmy McCullough (who rather spectacularly looks and talks like a little old woman), very cute Tim Wheeler from Ash and Gary Lightbulb from the awful awful awful awful Snow Patrol.
Every time I see Gary Lightbulb I recall the anecdote from a fan that appeared on Holy Moly's Mailout. It described an *encounter* with Gary when he was in an altered state hem hem, and the phrase "like trying to fit a slug into a coin slot" was used. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, mmmm.
There seem to have been a lot of bands from N.I. that faded back into obscurity even though they were fucking obscure enough to begin with. They all had 1982 hairstyles and were called Ten Past Seven, Twenty To Four and Ten To Two.
How could the documentary fail to mention Norrrn Irrn's biggest, hardest, loudest and scariest Fenian riot grrrll act - The Bernadette Devlins?
... this was the band that drove the Rev. Ian Paisley to drink for the only time in his life. Yeah - the Rev. really DID partake of the Devil's Buttermilk!!
Shame on you, BBC 4.
Labels: Bernadette Devlin, Gary Lightbulb, Norrrn Irrn, Rev. Ian Paisley, The Devil's Buttermilk, Van Morrison, yet another rock documentary for 40 somethings
