Well Worth the Wait

Ordered from some California site over a month ago, turned up at the office yesterday.


1. Drink Problem - Renees
2. Often - Five Go Down To The Sea
3. Song of Deep Hate - Hagar the Womb
4. Different - Word
5. Channel Steamer - Nikki Sudden
6. Last Pop Song - One Thousand Mexicans
7. Harry Was a Babysitter - Bomb Party
8. Rooster Blue - Three Johns
9. Vengenance - New Model Army
10. Going to Be - The Janitors
11. Hey Little Gary - Moosists
12. Don't Panic - Jazzawhaski
13. Passing - Global Infantalists
14. Fields of Sleep - Into a Circle
15. Zap Rap - Big Zap
16. Cry Wolf - Nineteen Nineteen
17. West of Pecos - Howard Hughes
18. Tribute to the Punks of '76 - Punks Of '76

I haven't heard "Vengeance" since the mid-80s, when a gang of us used to frequent the Berlin nightclub in Manchester. Happy nights dancing to "Westworld," "Rock Lobster," and "Vengeance."

Don't know why, maybe copyright reasons, but the Nineteen Nineteen track on this album has been replaced by the Three Johns' "AWOL." You won't hear me complaining, although I really bought it for The Janitors (I used to have a Janitors T-shirt years ago that would be worth a small fortune today - a small fortune being anything up to five quid) and for Five Go Down to the Sea, whose charismatic and frankly bonkers lead singer, Finbarr Donnelly, died accidentally a few years back when he drowned in the Serpentine.

For some reason, the best bands in Ireland all come from Cork: Fatima Mansions, Nine Wassies from Bainne, and the Fives. Dublin offers U2, Boyzone, Westlife, and Bewitched. Go figure.

Finbarr was also the subject of an award winning documentary by Cork Community Radio, appropriately titled Get That Monster Off the Stage. A true legend, though what the band is doing on an album titled British Airwaves beats me.