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Cactus World News – Found (2015)

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rsz_cwn ‘Found’ is a collection of very rare and previously unreleased tracks from Cactus World News, being released by Red Coral Records. The tracks consist of songs written with original line up and the 1989-1991 line up.
Cactus World News were formed in 1984 when founding members, guitarist Frank Kearns and front man Eoin McEvoy, met up in a flat in Cabra and wrote ‘The Bridge’ (below) together. Shortly after their inaugural jamming session, Wayne Sheehy (drums) and Fergal MacAindris (bass) would complete the band’s line-up and Cactus World News were ready to set off on an incredible musical voyage together. It could be said that the seeds of this journey were planted years before however, Kearns attended Mount Temple school…

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…in Clontarf at the same time as U2, who needless to say, had a shared passion and whose musical paths would cross time and time again over the coming decade in particular. All four band members already had 6-7 years experience in various bands behind them before CWN got together which prepared them to a degree for tours of the United States, supporting The Cult on their U.K. tour in 1985 and their appearance at the epic 14 hour long, 1986 Self-Aid concert at the RDS in aid of the 250,000 unemployed in Ireland at the time.
Following the near-collapse of punk in the mid-80’s record labels sought to push new wave pop in order to create another ‘movement’ within the music scene, this resulted in many bands scrambling to add synth players and electronic drumming to their line-up and sound. Some bands however were not happy to abandon their musical background and stuck to their rock and punk roots, one such band was Cactus World News. Their debut album Urban Beaches (1986) was almost 2 years in the making when it was released, the band built up a significant fan base at home and in the U.K. before they toured the United States, this ground-work would lead to record sales of over a quarter of a million and propelled the band to the forefront of the Irish music scene. Sadly, as is quite common, outside forces conspired to halt what was hoped at the time would be a temporary interruption to their voyage. The follow up to the hugely successful Urban Beaches, No Shelter, had its release cancelled in 1989 and the Cactus World News story seemed to have come to a shuddering halt, that is, until now.


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