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Bio:
Post-punk led by Michael Stephens (now a journalist in the USA) with Roe Butcher
(ex Xdreamysts) on bass and Dougie Gough (ex Rodeo,
Albania) on guitar.
I'm not sure which drummer came first.
They were a powerful, high energy live band by all accounts and were tipped to do the
business but it was not to be. The recorded an album with Mudd Wallace at Homestead Studios
in Randalstown, by which time they were playing a more roots rock, what today would be branded
alt-country. This album was a victim of Good Vibrations intermittent money problems.
Terri Hooley was shutdown by the taxman in 1984 and the LP was never released.
And then the master was lost for many years.
Micky Stevens moved to North Carolina in 1985 where he teaches and plays music.
Roe Butcher remained active on the music scene and currently plays with Henry McCullough.
Dougie Gough still lives and plays in Coleraine, Co. Derry.
Paddy McNicholl ran the famous Connolly's of Leap venue for many years. He passed away in 2010.
In 2010 the band surfaced on the reverbnation website (see Links below) and announced plans to
finally make the unreleased album available once the masters have been located. Some tracks
("Energy To Burn", "Breaking Up With Harry" and more) were available on the reverbnation site.
Eventually a master did turn up, and the the unreleased album finally came out in 2012 on Good
Vibrations. The title 'Paddy' is in memory of the bands drummer Paddy McNicholl. Contemporary
reviews describe it as 'Americana'. The band played some shows to coincide with the release.
Notes: The unreleased album finally saw the light of day in 2012. The CD edition has a lot of overlap with the cassette edition I have, which must have been rough mixes.
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