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Advert for No Romance shop Dublin 2, 1982

This is from a two page advert for No Romance shop at 73 Aungier St, Dublin 2. It appeared in Issue 1 of the fanzine Devoid Media in May […]

John Lydon and Dark Space at the Project Arts Centre – In Dublin Feb 1979

This is probably my favourite cover of In Dublin magazine. […]

Stiff Little Fingers – Gay Byrne Column, Sunday World, 1978

This is from Gay Byrne’s weekly Sunday World column dated August […]

Phil Chevron – His fave records of 1977 + NME 40th Birthday 1992

Even though I knew he was very ill it was […]

Sunday World – A – Z of Punk. Jan, 1978

Read full story here… From Sunday World, 8th Jan, 1978. […]

NME & the Belfield Punk Festival, UCD, Dublin, June 1977

This month, 35 years ago, Patrick Coultry, from Cabra, Dublin […]

Static Routines – Rock ‘n’ Roll Clones – 7″ Single – 1979

From Blackrock, Dundalk, Static Routines released their 7″ single “Rock […]

Skank Mooks party with Virgin Prunes, Dublin, Nov 1978

On the back of this old photo it says, Reduce […]

The Clash – Trinity College, October 21st, 1977.

The Clash played 2 gigs on this Friday night. First […]

No Romance – Punk Fashion Shop, late 70s/80s, Dublin.

In the late 70s/80s Susan & Regine Moylett, sisters of […]

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

Above is a scan of the front and back cover […]

HEAT – Volume 2 – issues 6 to 11 1978

Here is the selection of Vol 2 Heats which we […]

Dublin’s Heat Fanzine – the first 5 issues 1977

Here is a photo I took today of 4 of […]

More NRG in Hot Press – 1978

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]