Microdisney: C/D?

(xp) Uh excuse me, only another Irish band that's all ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FswDoZKFXVc

(xp) Beat me by a millisecond there.

BREAKING: The death has been announced of Cathal Coughlan, the Cork music legend who fronted such acts as Microdisney and Fatima Mansions... more to follow pic.twitter.com/ktq2Udl36x

— Irish Examiner Arts & Culture (@IEArtsCulture) May 23, 2022

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck :(

These performances feels very poignant now. Think it may've been the last time Sean and Cathal were on stage together?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKcA0HimgmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCwgJJW09pg

I was there!

Four years ago, and it feels a lifetime away now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnudQE0Oi4Q

“464” has been blowing me away lately. What a marvelous, weird song.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001x9fs

^ documentary on bbc4 this weekend

Thanks for that.

(specifically Friday at 10 and then iPlayer i guess)

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0314/1437812-new-microdisney-film-is-raw-and-tinged-with-sadness/

I loved the doc. Full marks, and I say that as a Microdisney agnostic, so for the believers it must be quite something.

I havent seen it but apparently there's a clip of me and my mate Ray at their Cork gig on the documentary. Anyway to see this for people who don't have BBC in Ireland? Maybe ze torrentz?

I saw most of the doc last night, I was delighted and amazed it existed, I don't think it was any good tho really, which is a general observation about music documentaries

I presume that this was the final show in 2019 and not one of the early ones.

(xp) Agreed. It wasn't very well made but I'm so pleased Cathal and Sean got at least some of the attention they deserved - at long last.

Yeah that

I was out with a friend tonight who also loved this who is also not particularly into Microdisney. Perhaps the less one is into them the more likely it is they'll like it? I thought their story was really fascinating even if it was the usual talking head formula.

I enjoyed it a lot, fairly standard talking heads, cut and paste old footage format. Some great clips, lolled at their appearance on the Tom O’Connor show. Pedant nitpicking, I was mildly annoyed that they were talking about 83-85 era indie but used clips of 77 punk singles to highlight this.

Found a clearly unwell Coughlan talking about his regrets for his behaviour really moving. I hope he found peace before he died.

Enjoyed the documentary as well despite the fairly standard format. If nothing else, the positive feedback might encourage someone to make Microdisney's albums available again. Crooked Mile and 39 Minutes have been out of print for ages and the cheapest used copy of the 2013 re-release of Everybody is Fantastic is going for £75 on Amazon. Even the 2-disc Daunt Square to Elsewhere anthology is now as rare as hen's teeth.

Crazy to think that the only Virgin era CDs are the original 1980s editions. Hopefully someone like Cherry Red or LNTG will look at getting expanded editions done.

Also the complete Peel Sessions, which is the best music they ever recorded.

Agree with that. There were unfinished sketches such as 'Half a Day' on the Peel Sessions which it would be nice to hear again.