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People will watch old football hooligan videos and think, ‘that must have been amazing’. For a band like us, that lived through it – there was a reason we weren’t direct. Because the band's name is accompanied by a question mark, it seems to indict that there may or may not be something wrong with the person, or group of people, in question. Our patients' collective "psychosis", or whatever term the behavioral, brain science officials deem appropriate, may be a natural product of being 'people in a band'...but has somehow been construed or escalated to them needing therapy? Because they may not be doing 'natural' things? That's what "Therapy" describes? The potential patients going to therapy? I’m in Cambridge and Neil the drummer is in Derby where used to be in Cable who you once produced. He’s got a great story about you when they were recording their album with you and the band ended up having a fight with Oasis and you had to break the fight up like you were the referee! Kneecap performed during the Electric Picnic Festival in Stradbally, Co Laois last year. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Acharya, Kiran (7 February 2019). " Troublegum At 25: An Oral History Of The Therapy? Classic". Kerrang! . Retrieved 15 July 2022.Listen, Jerusalem is a city in the Middle East. The Jerusalem you’re talking about, this majestic utopia – it’s another one of your myths,” he says. Michael: I didn't know it either. I just thought it was just a cool line. Then obviously I heard it later, and it was something I'd obviously heard before, but it hadn't really sunk in. The Bowie version had been around forever, but I hadn’t consciously heard it, if you know what I mean. This reminds me a little bit of when the wall came down in East Germany. After the initial euphoria, I remember a lot of our German friends saying that eastern European communist chic had become trendy [among] people that were way too young when the wall came down to remember what the old east [was] like,” he says. Is that why you did some of the things you did, like purposefully not making Troublegum 2 and adding cellos to Infernal Love?

Knives" – 1994, with "Knives" (kiddie version), "Pantopon Rose" and "Nowhere". This single was a US only promo release. And if, in some way, the three of us had been responsible for making records that had the same impact on them, that records by Joy Division, and the Undertones had on me, I'm over the moon with that.” As well as the new Therapy? album – which we ’ll get to – you’ve got new music from your other band, JAAW, coming up. Perhaps this album’s biggest problem is that it killed any chance for any other Therapy? release to get a fair hearing. With so much tied up in this album, any subsequent album had to be able to do these same things to me and FOR me to be considered close to its equal, and the band hasn’t been able to reproduce that. There are good albums yes, but nothing that can match what is on Troublegum. For the same reason I can understand (to a certain degree) when people say they don’t think this album is anywhere near as good as I think it is. That’s completely understandable considering what I have tied up in this album emotionally. Each song means something to me, and is tied to emotions I have felt in many different moments in my life. It still speaks to me today in the same way even though I don’t feel those same things anymore, because I remember what I felt at the times these songs remind me of.Michael is still in Northern Ireland. He’s happy there. I was there for a while but when I got married it made more sense for me to move because when I was living in Ireland leaving my partner on her own whilst we were away touring for months on end didn’t seem fair. These days it’s not a problem where the band lives because you can send ideas and mp3s online and get together a few days before a tour and it all works out ok.’

Today, as the band release their 16th record, the excellent Hard Cold Fire, these things all remain very much in place. The angst of a teenager has become the biting observations of a man in his 50s who still has plenty to say, both musically and otherwise. Here, we catch up with him about his punk education, music in The Troubles, becoming enormous without knowing how, and getting your name from messing up your own gig flyer…

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I find myself in a strange position of wanting some sort-of self-aware version of 'troublegum' (perhaps catchy pop music that espouses 'making trouble'?)without any hint of the 'religious-tinged' wine. I would recommend skipping the album, but I cannot stop you from listening to it, I suppose... a b "ALBUM REVIEW: Therapy? - 'Hard Cold Fire' ". The Soundboard. 27 April 2023 . Retrieved 26 May 2023. I remember my younger brother being like, ‘That's a punk band! Punks razorblade grannies, and they spit on children!’ That was a media outrage. Then I got into The Clash and the Sex Pistols, I got a little tiny spiky hair cut.

People thought Troublegum had come out of nowhere, but all we’d known was hard work,” says Andy. “We had done two world tours that year, so we’d put in the legwork.” Therapy? the alt-metal band from Northern Ireland see two of their best known albums reissued in March 2014. It used to be difficult for people from the North of the country. It was hard to be proud of where you were from without taking a certain side. You always had to straddle the middle of the fence. With hindsight, Ewing's departure seems to be imprinted within the grooves of Infernal Love. Not only is he lower in the mix, his playing seems far less expressive, strangely muted, already disillusioned perhaps. Ewing quit the group during the Infernal Love tour, fearing that if he didn't he would "go mad". He then disappeared into obscurity, depriving the world of one its most exciting young drummers.
Incidentally, you can keep What's The Story, The Bends, and that Sparklehorse album with the clown on the front. The best album of 1995 (and second best album of the 90s) was Infernal Love. Dr Victkurt Cobainstein dealt with the unsettling success of his second album by doing too much heroin, hitching a lift on Captain Albini's expeditionary ship, pursuing his Nevermind monster to a mansion in the North Pole hoping to slay it with nothing but a borrowed shotgun and a copy of In Utero, before slipping tragically under the ice. Andy Cairns dealt with the unsettling success of his second album by taking lots of cocaine, shaving his head, investing in false moustaches, and making a bizarre goth-pop album in Peter Gabriel's recording studio.If someone said, ‘I don’t like the record, it’s crap’ – fair enough. But if someone said, ‘I don’t like the record because this Irish guy has got a s**t beard – that’s a bit more hard to take’.” The return to the iconography of the Troubles is about people who missed it first time around and think it’s a bit exciting,” says Cairns.