Name: Lights! Camel! Action! - the story of Stump by Paul McDermott
Duration: 1 h

Produced by The Maple Rooms Recording Studio - Cormac O'Connor
Mastered by Pete Maher
Song: The Nether Regions
Composer: Kieran O'Sullivan
Lyrics:
Please can you help me, I'm looking for something
Something that will make be feel extremely good
I've been waiting. long time, maybe too long time
I'm sitting on a chair and I'm stuck to the wood
And I'm sitting in Sloane Square, running on empty
My face is a mess and my eyes are wild
There's a man in the corner, just given him dollar
He's going to bring me something now to make me smile

And I'm sipping a glass of Napoleon brandy
It looks like we could be here for quite a while
I've just seen two birds now, who look like they're randy
but I couldn't get it up right now to save my life
And I'm crashing in Sloane Square, I'm out of my face
I've got the herbed-jeebies, super paranoid
I've go to escape now, get on a night train
If I wake up tomorrow it will be alright
And there are people talking , laughing, joking, woh oh oh oh
People crawling, falling dying, who oh oh on

Young Mrs Mendy was offering plenty
If we bumped of her old man we'd be rolling in clover
Conny the beaver, I know how to please her
She's always quite eager when I have her over
Running in Sloane Square, running on empty
Got to get myself together before I fall apart
Running in Sloane Square, running on empty
Running through the square that's got the darkest heart
And there are people talking , laughing, joking, woh oh oh oh
People crawling, falling dying, who oh oh on

You don't want to get yourself trapped here in Sloane Square
Oh man, you're a good looking felon
You know what the future holds for you in Sloane Square
Hog-tied, gagged and bound in leather
Fighting with your rivals, fighting for survival
Punch-drunk, wandering in the ether
Get yourself together, get out of Sloane Square
Oh man you don't know when you got it good

Sloane Square

Sloane Square (MASTER)

Inspired by Paul McDermot’s Tweet 

https://twitter.com/learnandsing/status/1412337693422493696?s=21

I copied the piece of music from the Tweet, mangled it with my modular (Morphagene and Monsoon) and recorded it straight out into my handheld recorder.

You can hear the original drift back in around one minute twenty six seconds

Irish Rhapsody Redux

OUT: 14/10/22

Love is a real place now
I moved away, but I can't move on

I know your name, I felt your pain, I got caught in your rain 
Admired your view, I felt anew, swam in your sea of blue 
Your minarets, your silhouette, smoked your funny cigarettes

Love is a real place now
I moved away, but I can't move on

I breathed your air, I brushed your hair, I knelt and said a prayer 
You let me be, I climbed a tree, I worked on your farm
I learned your streets, I changed your sheets, fell asleep in your arms

I thought I could always stay the night 
I thought I was beginning to do it right 
But these things happen, these things happen

Love is a real place now
I moved away, but I can't move on

Love Is a Real Place

Lights! Camel! Action! – The Story of Stump is a documentary about Stump, the Anglo-Irish experimental, rock band from the 1980s. The documentary has been in production for the past year and sadly in November 2015 Mick Lynch, the enigmatic front man and lyricist with the band fell ill and passed away on 17 December, 2015. 

Stump were one of the bright lights of the mid-80s UK indie music scene. Their music was a dense, complicated, experimental repertoire of angular riffs, rhythms and beats which used shifting time signatures twisting around Mick’s surreal lyrical output. They made abrasive music but with a keen pop sensibility. They always felt out of place and out of time.

This documentary is more than the story of Stump, it’s a story that also encompasses the history of the UK independent music scene of the 1980s. It’s the story of indie record labels, satellite major labels and the mavericks who ran them. It records a time when the UK weekly music newspapers, the BBC’s John Peel, and Channel 4’s The Tube TV show reigned supreme. It’s the story of fanzines and underground gig circuits; big budgets being spent on recording studios and expensive videos. Stump’s story is also a microcosm of the wider social, cultural and political history of Ireland’s mid-80s emigrant community in London.

A Learn & Sing production for UCC98.3FM, funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland from the Television Licence Fee.

Lights! Camel! Action! - the story of Stump

Na píoba (An Phíb Uilleann): Rose Ní Laoghaire
Léiriú: F Giordai Ua Laoghaire

Recorded using Reaper/Spitfire Audio
I Stiúideo na nUamhanna ins na hUamhanna
a deineadh an Innealtóireacht fuaime, agus an taifead ar fad

Griangraf: Duine gan ainm i dtír gan anam

Táimse Im Choladh (Ein traditionelles irisches Stück)

The Band Nuisance is a drama/documentary hybrid, telling the story of the revolutionary period in Cork in the early years of the 20th century, through the prism of musical marching bands in the city at the time, drawing new insights from the intersection of history, music and drama.

The documentary content of the programme features analysis from, among others, John Borgonovo of the School of History at University College Cork, who has written extensively on the subject of band activity during the revolutionary period. The drama content features excerpts from the Frank O’Connor short story ‘The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland’, which focuses on political rivalries between marching bands, as realised by the Intersections Collective.

The programme also features recordings of The Barrack Street Band playing music popular in the revolutionary period.

Produced by Conor O’Toole
Sound Supervision by Kieran Hurley for UCC98.3FM
www.ucc.ie/983fm

Sound Engineering by Cormac O'Connor
www.cormacoconnordesign.com

Featuring
Dr John Borgonovo, School of History, University College Cork
www.ucc.ie/en/theirishrevolution/

Maura Cronin, Emeritus Senior Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College Limerick
dspace.mic.ul.ie/browse?type=auth…=Cronin%2C+Maura

Dr Hilary Lennon, Frank O’Connor Research Fellow in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/…s/hilary-lennon.php

Heather Laird, English Department, University College Cork
publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A014/hlaird

Mary Mitchell Ingoldsby, School of Film, Music and Theatre, University College Cork
publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A021/mmitchell

Billy O’Callaghan, Chairman and Cornet Player, The Barrack Street Band
www.facebook.com/CorkBarrackStreetBand

Drama Scenes Produced by The Intersections Collective
Drama Scenes Voiced by Mark D’Aughton
Original musical arrangements composed by Mark Wilkins
and performed by Mark Wilkins and Victoria Keating

Extracts from “The Cornet-Player Who Betrayed Ireland” by Frank O’Connor are dramatised with kind permission of the Frank O’Connor Estate

This programme was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee

*This is Part 1 of an extended edit of the original 60 minute programme first broadcast in February 2023 on UCC98.3FM.

The Band Nuisance - Marching Bands & Political Activity in Revolutionary Cork: Part 1

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Jude Sherry is the director of the global design agency Anois, which she co-founded with her partner Frank O’Connor to create value through design for sustainability. She is an international expert & thought leader on ecodesign, sustainable design & circular economy. 

In 2021 she received the Irish Tatler Woman of the year award in Art & Design for her leadership in Sustainable & Ethical Design and alongside her partner Frank O’Connor they are on a vital crusade to highlight the amount of Dereliction and Vacancy in our cities, towns and rural areas to bust the many myths around tackling dereliction in a housing emergency.

Jude Sherry (Anois Agency - Eco Urban Design)

John Hegarty is the director of Fourem Architects who specialise in urban design and the conservation of historic structures and spaces. Through his work he has developed a deep love for the historic architecture of Cork city and this drove John to represent a campaign to oppose the council and OPW planned flood walls along the quays in Cork. 

The campaign argues that these flood walls would drastically change the feel and look of Cork as a heritage port city and greatly diminish the view and connection the island of Cork has with its River Lee. The campaign is called Save Cork City and you will notice the Love the Lee slogan displayed at businesses around the city who support the cause. Save Cork City have been opposing the planned walls for over 5 years now and they propose that building a tidal barrier at Little Island or Tivoli would be a far more economically viable option, cause no interruption to the city centre but also save the original 18 century quay walls. 

We get into the nitty gritty of the issues surrounding Cork city as a marsh and the city's flood defence, but we also talk about dereliction/vacancy, the housing emergency, the Sextant pub and much much more... Enjoy!

John Hegarty (Save Cork City - Love The Lee)

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educator
broadcaster
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Lights! Camel! Action! - the story of Stump

Paul McDermott

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