Easterhouse - cargo of souls, 1986

"Easily the best political rock band of the 80s with jangly guitars and leftist politics! Through my teenage years my choice of music was pretty much an exclusive diet of fast and noisy hardcore punk rock... but there were a handful of exceptions. I loved a bit of folk music. My Grandads Wolfe Tones albums I still cherish along with my Mammy’s Johnny Cash ones but I also fell in love with bands like The Kinks, The Band Of Holy Joy and New F.A.D.S who i just liked the music. One band though that has been a constant for me throughout my life has been Easterhouse. Virtually unknown to the outside world their brand of cool indie guitar rock and absolute unashamed working class communist polemic as well as support for the Irish republican movement reached to the very core of me and I’ve been listening to them ever since"