Houdi McCabe
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Storytime with Houdi – Raintown… (opens the original)
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It’s 1987. I’m working in war torn Northern Ireland. In a big shopping centre, the first major retail development in that area for decades. The good news is that it’s my week off. I’m listening to Raintown the debut album from Deacon Blue. The album is mainly about Glasgow. Belfast too is dreary, but unlike Glasgow, the tribes here are slaughtering each other. There is hope in the music. The first single Dignity describes a street sweeper who just wants a peaceful retirement amid all the chaos a
Storytime with Houdi – Hairbrush… (opens the original)
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That lyric by David Gates’ Bread was from a song I first heard on Radio Èireann as I watched my mother staring, catatonic, into the fire, after burying my 56 year old father. Not even ten years old I was a sad boy then. My melancholy reinforced by a misunderstanding we had just before his sudden death. Fourteen years later listening to Ken Boothe singing his version on BBC Radio Ulster I was a happy young man. Well into my second year as assistant manager in a huge department store in Republican
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