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We were so earnestly serious about the music. It was everything, our weekly buzz, our social life, and very quickly we made a conscious decision, as 16-year-olds who knew everything, to be a real band. We were all chin out, chest out, like we knew exactly what we’re doing when we didn’t have any idea at all.
– Guitarist Michael O'Neill on his teenage band The Screaming Meemees, AudioCulture, 2 Jul 2014
Influenced by the ska bands coming out of the UK, and by sixties pop ... these Shore acts soon garnered large and very loyal followings from the crowds whose elder siblings had followed the punk bands of 77 / 78, but none more so than the still under 17 year old Screaming Meemees whose innocently dumb, but really very smart, originals included the infectious Till I Die (with lyrics from Catholic hymns), the inane, but extraordinarily catchy Pointy Ears, and Can’t Take It.
– Former label owner Simon Grigg remembers The Screaming Meemees, Simongriggdotinfo website
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