We have been searching high and low for a digital copy of this 1985 compilation recorded at the famed Dublin institution ‘The Underground’. 32 years after the album was released Ken has come to the rescue – thank you!
As a new band, securing a headline gig in Dublin was nigh on impossible during that period – the Underground put on bands that no other venue would touch. Bands with no profile, no obvious crowd pulling appeal. That policy ensured that some of the finest Irish acts of that era took their early tentative steps on the cramped Underground stage – bands like Something Happens, The Stars of Heaven, A House, Engine Alley, the Slowest Clock, The Power of Dreams, The Fountainhead, Into Paradise, Guernica, the Gorehounds, Therapy?, The Fat Lady Sings, the Would Bes – the list is endless.
Paul Page (Whipping Boy) for betweenthebars.net
Full details on the compilation can be found at irishrock.org. Colm O’Callaghan (Blackpool Sentinel) remembers here.
Hughie Purcell ‘Push & Shove’
A House ‘On Your Bike Wench’
Fallen Angels ‘Small Beer’
Gorehounds ‘The Way I Walk’
Something Happens! ‘Real Time’
The Stars of Heaven ‘Hey Little Child’
The Fanning Sessions Archive 