Terri Hooley
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Terri Hooley, Godfather of the Belfast punk scene and the first person to win the Oh Yeah Legend Award in 2008. Hooley has received many awards throughout the world, his first was The Irish Music Industry Award 1994, Belfast caught up in 2008 when he received several awards in his native city. The founder of Good Vibrations record shop and label,responsible for bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts making their mark on the national music scene in Britain. After playing Teenage Kicks
on BBC
national radio John Peel
then became a big supporter of the Good Vibrations record label. The label celebrated its thirty-year anniversary in April 2008.
Terri's Good Vibes record shop at Winetavern St, Belfast was closed down in July 2011. A biopic based on his life, Good Vibrations: The Film, began filming in August 2011.
TERRI HOOLEY: One-eyed supremo of the great Good Vibrations record, Terri is responsible for the
most worthwhile coming together of the different traditions in the North in the entire history of that province. Sure they are brought together under various guises "to get to know one another", but the don't make records like "Teenage Kicks", "Big Time" and "Right Way Home". In punk rock the
colour of your religion had no meaning. And Terri did a lot to make it happen. None of the North's
leading politicians have ever heard of him, because they are too ignorant. From the book, They Are Of Ireland by Declan Lynch
Teenage Kicks
"Teenage Kicks" is a 1978 song originally recorded by Northern Irish punk rock group The Undertones. Composed by the band's principal songwriter, John O'Neill, it was championed by DJ John Peel, and was his all-time favourite song.-John Peel:...
on BBC
BBC
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national radio John Peel
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
then became a big supporter of the Good Vibrations record label. The label celebrated its thirty-year anniversary in April 2008.
Terri's Good Vibes record shop at Winetavern St, Belfast was closed down in July 2011. A biopic based on his life, Good Vibrations: The Film, began filming in August 2011.
TERRI HOOLEY: One-eyed supremo of the great Good Vibrations record, Terri is responsible for the
most worthwhile coming together of the different traditions in the North in the entire history of that province. Sure they are brought together under various guises "to get to know one another", but the don't make records like "Teenage Kicks", "Big Time" and "Right Way Home". In punk rock the
colour of your religion had no meaning. And Terri did a lot to make it happen. None of the North's
leading politicians have ever heard of him, because they are too ignorant. From the book, They Are Of Ireland by Declan Lynch