The Singing Rabbitte:

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I went to have a look at the Black Market Clash exhibition on Berwick Street a few nights ago, during a break in rehearsals in the Palace Theatre.  I didn’t have much time, but I didn’t need much.  It’s a quick, witty charge through images and sound – a bit like a Clash song.  But it got me thinking about the past and the present and the music we take with us from then to now.

There’s a line in the Commitments script that the young actor playing Jimmy Rabbitte, Denis Grndel, has been saying again and again for the last six weeks of rehearsals: ‘They’re finished, Outspan.  Believe me.’  He’s talking about U2, in 1986.  But the line isn’t in the novel, which I wrote in 1986.

So, am I cheating?  I’m giving Jimmy a look at the future.  … Read More »