Music

Wasn’t Liam Mackey clever the way he crossed out Energy and replaced it with NRG? This Hot Press cutting is from Spring/Summer 1978. I can’t believe we only had 5 original […]

1978

The City of Rubber – 1978

I found an old Hot Press from Spring 1978 and it has a reference to NRG claiming we called Dundalk ‘the Irish city of Rubber’, a reference to Akron, Ohio (known as […]

1980

The Wonderland of Boogie – “Too Late” Issue 3 Autumn 1980

Twenty Four pages in this very well laid out issue, […]

1980

Happy Easter! Too Late fanzine, issue 2 – Easter 1980

Easter 1980 & the second issue of Too Late hits […]

1979

Down the Train Station at Midday – From Too Late Fanzine #1 1978

The first issue of Dundalk fanzine Too Late issued in […]

1978

Too Late Fanzine 1978 – 1982

“Christmas 1978 and the first ever edition of Too Late hits the streets of Dundalk. A further four issues were produced during the following four years and sold around pubs […]

1978

NRG – Say it fast!!

Nowadays Lucozade style drinks & > 130bpm bad dance music all use the term NRG. Back in 1978 we had problems with this name. People would look at you with […]

‹ Newer 1 2 3

Brand New Retro

Vintage Irish Pop Culture & Lifestyle

Music

Siouxsie & the Banshees & the Cure – 5 Sep, 1979 – Ulster Hall, Belfast

Adam and the Ants – 6 August 1979, London Lyceum

The Beat & Specials – Dublin’s Stardust Ballroom, 15 Jan, 1981

Black & White – Dublin Fanzine 1979.

Pop Tones – Dublin Fanzine 1982? featuring Some Kind of Wonderful

Choice – Irish Post Punk / Electronic pop from Dundalk 1980-82

Hot Press July 1988 – Zig & Zag interview by Graham Linehan

When U2 played with the Scheme – Dandelion Market – Sept 1979

Dublin Fanzine – Heat issue 10 – 1978 – Hip to be Irish!

Dublin’s Heat 11- 1978 with U2, Boy Scouts & more

HEAT – Volume 2 – issues 6 to 11 1978

When Dominique Rocheteau frequented Drogheda Night Spots

Dublin’s Heat Fanzine – the first 5 issues 1977

More NRG in Hot Press – 1978

The City of Rubber – 1978

The Wonderland of Boogie – “Too Late” Issue 3 Autumn 1980

Happy Easter! Too Late fanzine, issue 2 – Easter 1980

Down the Train Station at Midday – From Too Late Fanzine #1 1978

Too Late Fanzine 1978 – 1982

NRG – Say it fast!!