The 1980s was an era defined by excess: drugs, sex and 40-foot tall speaker stacks were all the rage, and on Friday night a little bit of the sunset strip

For those not already in the know, Neil Johnson was a well-known and well respected music journalist, reporter and feature writer for the Belfast Telegraph. In the mid 1970’s Johnson

The lights dim and a famous Spiro Agnew speech is projected from the speakers. The room is silent as we hear, “The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated