Mairead and I were coffeeing on Botanic Avenue this past June in South Belfast, and a man asked if he could join our table on the street. He turned out to be Joby Fox, a member of the 80s-90s Northern Irish band Energy Orchard, and they had shot the music video for their single “Sailor Town” in where else? Braddock, Pennsylvania.
So we recorded an impromptu reminiscence session right there at Clements, Mairead on audio, me on video. And “Sailor Town”, you can see it woven into the interview, or in its completeness here. You can see Joby in his 1990 version, in the thumbnail gallery above or on the right in the video. And his website is here.
I sold most of these monsters at the Belfast and Dublin shows back in June, and I never properly documented them before they left me. A lot of them were pocket sized, made out of QFT Lost & Found hats and scarves. Others were from huge bags of underused clothing that students had left piled up in front of their Holylands doors when the school year ended. I had to tell passersby that I was an art student when they shot me ‘Why are You Going Through Abandoned Bags of Clothes’ looks. One day, I hope, I will not even register those looks.
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I drew these squares of fabric (cut up sheets from a skip in the Holylands, thank you students) on the Rail and Sail over to Ciaran and back. Thank you Ciaran! And to the taxi driver in the three hour taxi from Glasgow to Stranraer, as funded by the National Rail. So thanks to them and the person who instigated the Tuesday 9:30 am Bomb Scare at Euston that set a wild day of dysfunctional transportation into action!
