Oral Histories
Comprehensive longread companions to the radio documentaries featuring extra interviews, background information, photographs, ephemera and cultural and historical context.
2,200 words (10 minute read)
(A postscript to the Oral History featuring 2021 interviews and Rob McKahey’s photographs of Berlin in 1987.)
22,000 words (85 minute read)
18,200 words (70 minute read)
Part 1 - Cork
20,200 words (77 minute read)
Part 2 — The Rough Trade Years
15,400 words (60 minute read)
Part 3 — The Virgin Years
14,000 words (54 minute read)
Gavin Friday on: Virgin Prunes, David Bowie, Dublin’s Project Arts Centre, post-punk philosophies, The Fall, Vox magazine, PIL, the NME’s C81 cassette, My Bloody Valentine, Cathal Coughlan, and London.
5,100 words (20 minute read)
Stano on: Dublin punk and post-punk — Vox magazine —U2 and Mother Records — My Bloody Valentine —Michael O’Shea — Alto Studios — Roger Doyle — and Micro Disney’s Giordaí Ua Laoghaire.
4,200 words (17 minute read)
