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It is the nature of sites like this to be constantly in need of updating. So many errors and omissions, so little time to correct them. I always need new or better quality photographs and cover scans, that goes without saying, but I could also use your help with the following areas. Click each section for more details.
Fanzines are invaluable sources of information for a project like this. Fanzines thrived during the
Punk & New Wave era and I badly need copies of the issues listed below. Photocopies or scans
(300 dpi please) are perfectly acceptable. Other magazines such as Hot Press (1977-82), In Dublin
(especially early 1980s issues),
Spotlight / New Spotlight (mainly for photographs) and any other Irish music related publication are
always useful but please note that I do not collect vintage magazines as such and these things have no
value to me once I've read them, i.e. I'm not interested in paying £10 for an original issue of
Alternative Ulster, OK! As long as its readable and the images are clear, I'm quite happy with a xerox.
Examples of what I'm looking for:
| All Systems Go | any issue |
| Almost Grown | any issue |
| Almost Art | any issue |
| Alternative Ulster | any |
| Black & White | any issue |
| Buddy | any issue |
| Cabaret | any issue |
| Devoid Media | 2, 3, .. |
| Europe At A Glance | any issue |
| Heat | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Vol.2 Nr.1 |
| Hot Press | any pre-1981 issue |
| Hot Press Year Book | 1985, 1986, 1989 |
| Imprint | 1-8 |
| Insane Society | any issue |
| It's Your World | any issue |
| Liggin' | any issue |
| Mental Energy | any issue |
| Moonstruck | 1, 3, 5.. |
| Ms.Marvel | any issue |
| Neu Carnage | any issue |
| 9 To 5 | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Orange Vomit | any issue |
| Poptones | 2, .. |
| Positive Reaction | any issue |
| Private World | any issue |
| Raw Power | 1, 2 |
| Shock Treatment | any issue |
| Skanar | any issue |
| Something Else | any issue |
| Sweet Sensations | 2, 3, .. |
| Too Late | any issue |
| To Pence Worth | any issue |
| Up Against It | 1, 3, .. |
| Up Yours! | any issue |
| VG Plus | 1 |
| Vox | 1, 9, 12, 13 |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway | 1, 2, 3, 4 (1986), 5 (1987) |
| Wimp Wonder Comic | any issue |
I recorded many Fanning sessions off the radio and I'm sure I wasn't the only
one. I lost all my tapes when I moved house several years ago. Help me
heal this painful memory by sending me copies of whatever you have, either on
tape or CD-R. If I ever win the lottery, I'll set up a record company and license the
sessions from RTE, just like Strange Fruit did with the BBC Peel Sessions.
Is there an official Fanning session archive? If you are Ian Wilson, please email me!
A twilight operation is now underway here,
where you can share your Fanning tapes with everyone, but it's probably best to use
an untraceable alias in case any legal interns at RTE decide to impress their mentor.
Just because a record appears on this site doesn't mean I own a copy or have even heard it. If you have spare copies of anything you're willing to part with, then please send them to me at the contact address. If you released a record or tape and still have copies lying about in the back of the wardrobe/attic/cowshed, then please dig them out and send them to me. This of course is the REAL reason I started this website. When I die, I'll leave them all to the State! If you're collecting Irish records yourself, you may need to be tempted by my trade list.
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Remember 'Aspects of Rock', the music section on Anything Goes on Saturday morning? Or
Aonghus MacAnally giving guitar lessons to some fat kid while extoling the virtues of Dire Straits?
And Noel Bridgeman teaching drums on a block of wood with lino stuck to it and explaining what paradiddles were?
If it was about rock music and it was on RTE, then Dave Heffernan was never far away.
Our Times?
Sounds of the Seventies??
What about Megamix? TV Ga-Ga? Youngline?
Campus Rock?
I remember most if not all of these shows but I never had the opportunity to tape them
(curse my penniless family for being too poor and technophobic to own a VCR in 1980!)
Is anyone out there sitting on mountains of video??
The please upload this material to YouTube. Or make a torrent (or just make me a DVDR, that's cool too).
Some enterprising individual made an excellent bootleg DVD-R collection of the
TV appearances of the main Belfast punk bands. Someone needs to do this
for the stuff broadcast by RTE!
See the video page for details of what's out there right now.
Also see the Film & TV section on the Resources page for more details of what
was broadcast.
I'm keen to know more about the following record labels. Discographies are listed on the
Labels page but I'm curious to know more details, such as who
who was behind the label, how long it lasted, etc.
Auric Records -- early 80s
Bandbox Records -- 1978
Souterrain -- Mark Clinton's label, released the superb Those Handsome Devils single (which I need badly),
and at least one single by Mark himself, but what else?
Traffic Jam Tapes -- mid-80s tape label in Raheny, Dublin; what did they release?