IN THE BEGINNING......

....before the fabulous Fatima Mansions who I've featured a few times at TVV, there was Microdisney.Formed in the early 1980s in Cork, Ireland by Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan, my first memory of the band is the fact that released a record called We Hate You South African Bastards which, at the height of the anti-apartheid movement, had the best title ever. No contest.I also recall them seeing them on Whistle Test on a night when James made one of their first ever TV appearances.Microdisney ...

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