• How's the form? Terri Hooley

  • Mar 13 2024
  • Length: 32 mins
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How's the form? Terri Hooley

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  • Terri Hooley, is best known as “the godfather of punk” in Northern Ireland. In 1970s troubles-ridden Belfast, he established the Good Vibrations record shop and label. He was responsible for bands including The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcast.

    After playing “Teenage Kicks” on BBC Radio One, DJ John Peel famously played the track twice and became a big supporter of Hooley’s record label. A biopic of Hooley’s life, Good Vibrations, came out in 2013 and a musical of the same name has gained huge critical acclaim here and in the US.

    Hooley openly admits that his passion for music was not matched by his abilities as a businessman, when the label went bankrupt in 1982. Friends rallied to help Terri to open a new record store which went on to thrive until closing in 2015. Terri Hooley’s legacy in the music scene, as an activist and anarchist have given him folklore-like status, with the stories to match.
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