Hooleygan by Terri Hooley & Richard Sullivan

Author:Terri Hooley & Richard Sullivan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
Published: 2013-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

It was due to premiere at the 1979 Cork Film Festival, so a group of us decided to make the journey down to show our support. I was also due to appear on Dave Fanning’s Rock Show to talk about the film. But the night before we were due to set off, John T. rang me with news that the festival had made a decision not to show the film, saying that it was ‘technically not up to standard’. It’s my personal opinion, but I maintain that this was not the case at all, that actually there was a snobbery about the ‘black north’ and about punk – they didn’t want to acknowledge what was going on up here. John was gutted of course, and asked me not to mention it on the radio, but I knew that we needed to make people aware of what had happened so I said, ‘John, fuck off, of course I’m going to mention it.’

We drummed up as much media attention as we could and word began to spread. A few weeks later it even took a silver medal at the New York Film Festival. Banned in Cork, feted in New York – I know what I’d rather have on my CV!

The film is raw and uncompromising, and in my opinion, a genuine piece of social history. I grew up in the sixties and it is sad that there is nothing from that time to record what was happening in Belfast or the great bands that played here, but Shellshock is a lasting record of what it was like to be in Northern Ireland in the late seventies. As John T. put it at the time, ‘The music is rough and reactionary and is all punk, but contains a certain quality that speaks volumes on contemporary life in Northern Ireland.’

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