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Full Description
Ruefrex were one of Northern Ireland's most popular and uncompromising punk rock bands.
Emerging from the Belfast street-gang culture of the late-1970s, the group, inspired by The Clash, enjoyed a turbulent, decade-long career. They played for millions on CNN and Channel 4, toured with The Pogues and recorded the controversial 'The Wild Colonial Boy', which attacked American donations to Northern Irish terrorist organisations.
Throughout it all, founder member, songwriter and spokesperson Thomas Paul Burgess ensured the band remained faithful to their Protestant, working-class origins. This candid memoir takes us on a journey from the streets of Belfast to encounters with U2, Shane MacGowan, The Cure, The Fall and Seamus Heaney.
From strife-torn 1970s Belfast to bohemian London, Wild colonial boys tells the story of a punk band who refused to give up and stayed true to their punk roots.
Contents
SIDE 1 | Origins: Belfast and Dublin (1974-84)
Chapter 1 TC
Chapter 2 'Pastures not greener but meaner'
Chapter 3 Anderson, Kelly and Greene
Chapter 4 The Pride of Ardoyne
Chapter 5 Bad vibrations
Chapter 6 The boy looked at Clarkey
Chapter 7 Lousy body
Chapter 8 If you go down to the Harp today ...
Chapter 9 GOT-8
Chapter 10 Cross the Line
Chapter 11 'Wasted Life'
Chapter 12 The fly and the dandelion
Chapter 13 The indignity of labour
Chapter 14 A Sense of Ireland
Chapter 15 The Black Catholics
Chapter 16 Of giants and sandcastles
SIDE 2 | Second coming: London and Manchester (1985-7)
Chapter 17 'The Wild Colonial Boy'
Chapter 18 'Change of Attention'
Chapter 19 Our Tune
Chapter 20 Home thoughts from abroad
Chapter 21 Hot to trot
Chapter 22 If it ain't stiff, it ain't worth a fuck
Chapter 23 The fourth estate
Chapter 24 It's too late to stop now
Chapter 25 Sarm East is east, Sarm West is west
Chapter 26 Brixton nights
Chapter 27 On The Tube with Sonnie Rae
Chapter 28 Shane McGowan's smile
Chapter 29 Jumping the shark
Chapter 30 Green and pleasant land
Chapter 31 The return of the native
Coda | Legacy issues and the perils of misremembering
Index
