Who else contributed, apart from yourself and Frank, in making the Here To Go Show happen?
JA: Gordon Campbell was the Show’s sponsor. He paid for all the plane tickets, the hotel bills, the venue hire, a very very modest wage for us. On the streets of Dublin during the Show, there would have been no creativity or spark of originality without Hamri and the Master Musicians. They were the oil which made the wheels go round. Most of the fun which made the event endurable for me derived from that Moroccan contingent.
left, Hamri, Trolley Bus and Frank Rynne by May Sato
FR: Mohamed Hamri and The Master Musicians of Joujouka were the glue that held the whole together. There was also the designers. Plus Mark Siung, Daragh McCarthy and Paul Duane who shot the footage of the show. There were many people who helped look after the musicians. Felicity Mason’s son Alasdair Carnegie was also of great help.
JA: Niall Sweeney was the graphic designer who came up with the visual package – the book, the posters, the t-shirts, loads of other stuff. People said that he was a talented young man but his unprofessional confrontational attitude did damage to the entire Show. Still, he did some nice designs which were – in terms of a cultural backwater like Dublin – ahead of their time. Mark and Daragh's filming proved to be as valuable as anything else going on during that week. Thanks to them – and to Stuart MacLean who showed us how to knock their disparate pieces of footage into the film we have today – the documentation of the Show was total and can be experienced by a new generation fifteen years later.
How would you describe the atmosphere during some of the shows ?
JA: There were conflicting atmospheres. When Joujouka were playing it was always an emotional high. – all good – and the Baby Snakes set was great for me. I can’t say what it was like for the band. They were working. On the same bill as the Baby Snakes were the Revenants, a fine band led by Stephen Ryan, whose parents were old school bohos and whose mother, Sammy Sheridan, I once had the honour to publish in book form. There were a lot of spoken word events during the Show which you don’t see too much of in Destroy because either those events weren’t filmed or else there was some technical problem with the footage like if the sound was bad.
Article comments
1 - johnny boy
very stimulating
2 - paul hawkins
thanks, what did you find stimulating johnny boy ?