1985 Pop Goes Northern Ireland

'The meeting was due to take place on Friday evening.

'I was taken to a location which I believed to be the meeting place.'

I waited that full period of time, I waited some 28 hours altogether.

I was then taken to another place,

and a man who described himself as a spokesman for the Army Council said that they had a precondition,

which was that the meeting should be video-recorded.

I regret very much that I didn't have the opportunity

to meet them face to face and to put to them my view that they should bring their campaign to an end now.

# And if I only could

# I'd make a deal with God

# And I'd get him to swap our places

# Be running up that road

# Be running up that hill

# Be running up that building

# See, if I only could, oh-oh

# You don't want to hurt me... #

We do not support, in any way, the ecumenical apostasy of this day,

which seeks to destroy Bible Protestantism

by wooing nominal Protestants back to the Church of Rome.

I did hear somebody shouting, "Don't shoot,"

then, "Don't shoot me," and then there was another burst of fire.

# Pie Jesu

# Pie Jesu

# Pie Jesu

# Pie Jesu... #

It happened that only police officers were killed, men and women, Catholics and Protestants,

but that might easily not have been so.

There might easily have been heavy civilian casualties

from the mortar bombs that fell outside the stations, a thoroughly indiscriminate weapon,

and that, again, says something about the character and aims of the people who use these weapons.

# Pie Jesu

# Pie Jesu... #

Our position is quite simple, and my position is that I will not condemn the IRA.

The IRA is quite legitimate in its resistance to the British presence here,

and that physical force, whether IRA, British Army

or the more institutionalised violence of the state,

is symptomatic of what's wrong in the state,

and all of these can be stopped by dealing with the root cause of the problem.

# Move closer

# Move your body real close

# Until we... #

I have every confidence that young people won't rush out and start buying contraceptives everywhere,

but we are, as legislators...

we are being seen to condone a pattern of social behaviour

that no responsible adult would say should be the norm in our society.

# Move your body real close

# Until we... #

It has also rejected the vote of no confidence in young people

implicit in the attitude of the opposition.

It will not lead to any sudden cataclysmic outbreak of either abortion

or venereal disease in the Republic of Ireland, that will not happen.

He's done it!

Dennis Taylor...

# Welcome to your life

# There's no turning back

# Even while we sleep

# We will find you... #

The most important aspect of the smashing of Sinn Fein

will be done in the council chambers after the election is over.

We're not only going to smash them on polling day, but those little pieces

that get into local government after they've been smashed

-will be smashed again when we get them in local government.

-Hear, hear! Confrontation!

# It's my own desire

# It's my own remorse

# Help me to decide

# Help me make the most of freedom

# And our pleasure

# Nothing ever lasts forever

# Everybody wants to rule the world

# There's a room where the light won't find you... #

I've been elected by the ballot,

so they're going to have to work with us whether they like it or not.

We're not going away, we're here to stay.

How Unionists are expected to sit down with Sinn Fein murderers

when the British ministers are not prepared to meet them

is beyond my understanding and certainly the comprehension of any rational Ulster person.

13 years ago, I made a political statement by carrying a bomb into this building.

I am making the same statement today.

# I hear a lot of stories

# I suppose they could be true

# All about love... #

I'm not going to listen to no IRA gibber or nothing else. We're proud to live under it, there y'are.

Just mind your own business. I'm elected to this chamber, and I can walk out through the door.

A motion was passed that the two members of Sinn Fein

be allocated these two seats over here.

Away from the main council table.

Away from the main council table. They have their speaker and all...

They've all the amenities, the same as any other councillor.

But they wouldn't be part of the main council sitting over here, would they?

No, well, they're part of the... They're in the council chamber.

But they're not sharing it with the rest of the councillors.

-No, well, they're not, but they're still sitting here.

-And they wouldn't do that?

They refused to do that, and that's what started the trouble here in Craigavon.

Why should they have to sit over here when they're members of the council like everybody else?

Why can't they sit over there?

# So please be gentle with this heart of mine... #

ANNOUNCER: ..Barry McGuigan!

And a midget, an Irish midget prances about the ring as McGuigan is announced.

CHEERING

# It's all right you won't be sold

# Take a chance leave everything behind you

# Come and join me, you won't be sorry... #

Thank you, everybody!

There's only one man...

CHEERING DROWNS SPEECH

-What did you feel in that last round?

-I didn't see it. My nerves went.

I nearly fainted.

How do you feel? How do you feel?

I feel terrific and delighted.

I'm delighted for all my fans over there.

THEY SING

We're going to have a challenge match, I'm going to play him at snooker,

and he's going to fight me, so that should be interesting, eh?

The only thing is we're going to play the snooker first.

# Gimme the other gimme the other... #

CHEERING

Every drop of sweat, every punch that I've ever thrown,

it's all been worth it, and I'd do it three times over.

CHEERING

# We know where we're going

# But we don't know where we've been

# And we know what we're knowing

# But we can't say what we've seen

# And we're not little children

# And we know what we want... #

Yeah.

# We're on a road to nowhere

# Come on inside... #

We will not accept any re-routing, and we believe further consultations will take place,

and, again, wisdom will be seen by those in authority to allow us,

ordinary Christian Orangemen, to walk the Queen's highway.

# I'm feeling OK this morning

# And you know

# We're on a road to paradise

# Here we go

# Here we go

# We're on a ride to nowhere

# Come on inside... #

The violence has been minor, and one can understand why it's going on

when one sees the frustration amongst the Protestant community.

The vast majority of Orangemen here this morning have behaved in a very peaceful fashion.

We've just had a church service here down at the blockade,

and everyone behaved in a very upright and Christian manner.

# Here is where time is on our side

# Take you there

# Take you there

# We're on a road to nowhere... #

But what I think needs to be got across is the fact that McGuinness and whoever else represents

Sinn Fein and the IRA have access to the media, they have always had access to the media.

The British government can't come along now and just say because it was going to be shown in London,

because Maggie Thatcher was going to see it Number 10 Downing Street, she is now suddenly finding herself

in opposition to it and now suddenly produces a ban,

what amounts to a ban, in England to see this programme.

# Hey, little sister who's the one you want

# Hey, little sister, shotgun!

# It's a nice day to start again

# It's a nice day for a... #

There's got to be something which will finish the trouble

once and for all,

and the only way you'll do that with the IRA is to kill them.

# Hey, little sister what have you done

# Hey, little sister... #

This is the seventh time

the courts here have rejected the evidence of alleged accomplices.

These men say they just want to forget and pick up the pieces.

I don't think it was his fault. He's only a young fella, you know.

They get you in a lot of strife - you don't know what you're saying half the time.

Budgie Allen has nothing to fear from the men that was in the dock on this false evidence.

# Nice day for a white wedding... #

The man who was charged with you, with the murder of John Hardy,

was found guilty. What about that?

Nothing to say about it.

# The power of love is a curious thing

# Make a one man weep, make another man sing... #

I've reared him since he was a fortnight old on the bottle.

Matter of fact, I've had more

with him than I had with my own children, you know.

But he's no problem at all.

# Tougher than diamonds

# Rich like cream... #

If he did meet somebody on the road or when he's outside his complex and he went

to go for them and I couldn't hold him, that's the day I'll have to put him back into his compound.

At the minute he is playful, but

as far as I have seen with him up to now, the older he gets the quieter he's getting.

# That's the power of love... #

People there, they like dogs, different breeds of dogs,

some people like cats, some people like monkeys, others like birds.

It just so happens that I like big cats.

THEY SING

INAUDIBLE

# You don't have to take this crap

# You don't have to sit back and relax

# You can actually try changing it

# I know we've always been taught to rely

# Upon those in authority

# But you'll never know until you try

# How things just might be

# If we came together so strongly

# Are you gonna try to make this work

# Or spend your days down in the dirt

# You see things can change

# Yes, the walls came tumbling down... #

Once the Ulster Protestant feels that he is morally justified

in fighting, then he will fight.

# The walls come tumbling down

# Yes, they do, yes, they do yes, they do, yes, they do

# The competition is a colour TV

# We're on still pause with a video machine... #

And I say to all of you and I say it with the depths of sincerity,

there will be a move as never seen before,

unprecedented, coming together of the forces of the British Government

and the Free State Government to try and crush the effort for freedom in this country.

# Until you don't know where you are

# Are you gonna get to realise... #

Are you for the bullet or for the ballot? And at the moment the British Government evidently are for

the bullet, because they're prepared to bow to IRA threats, violence, murder, mayhem and burning.

# Who's gonna tell you when it's too late?

Went up and seen this girl folded up, like if her knees were pressed

up against her chest, just lying down facing inside the entry.

# You can't go on... #

Well, I think it was a pretty quick reminder for me of the brutality of

an organisation that has to depend

on those sort of methods to try and intimidate

and persuade people to maintain any support for them.

# Who's gonna pick you up when you fall?

# Who's gonna hang it up when you call? #

# Da da doo doo da da doo da da da da da

# Da da doo doo da da doo da da da da da, yeah

# No-one on earth could feel like this

# I'm thrown and overblown with bliss

# There must be an angel

# Playing with my heart, yeah

# I walk into an empty room

# And suddenly my heart goes boom

# It's an orchestra of angels

# And they're playing with my heart... #

I can't believe that she's actually here. She actually shook our hands.

# Must be talking to an angel must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel

# Must be talking to an angel must be talking to an angel... #

# Talking away

# I don't know what to say I'll say it anyway

# Today is another day to find you

# Shying away

# I'll be coming for your love again

-# Take on me

-Take on me... #

I condemn the ill-treatment of people in prison, the misbehaviour

of the security forces and the injustices in our legal system, like informers and supergrass trials.

But really, it wasn't any of that that got me into problems with the bishop.

Instead, it was my criticism of the Church and the clergy.

I certainly

want to pursue it, first of all to try and get the case heard, but also to establish

a principle that the Church, as well as everybody else, should be answerable to somebody.

Its purpose is to try to bring together and to support all of

those people in Northern Ireland who wish to end violence and to proceed in a democratic way.

Nationalists can now raise their heads knowing that their position is,

and is seen to be, on an equal footing with that of members of the unionist community.

We really enter this agreement in good faith and earnestly

to bring that about - the Taoiseach as a nationalist and a republican,

myself as a unionist and a loyalist.

# The boy with the thorn in his side

# Behind the hatred there lies

# A murderous desire

# For love

# How can they looking into my eyes and still they don't believe me?

# How can they hear me say those words... #

There was some amount of jostling, but could I say, a number of leading DUP members

attempted to restrain the crowd, who were quite justifiably angry about the sell-out.

And in fact the Secretary of State, as far as I am aware, was not

physically assaulted by anyone in the group, though there was a general fracas.

# Believe me now... #

Certainly at one stage, I think there was an arm wrapped around the Secretary of State's neck,

but I think that was just from what one would expect in the general melee that developed.

Where do the terrorists return to for sanctuary?

To the Irish Republic.

And yet Mrs Thatcher tells us that that republic must have

some say in our province.

We say never, never, never, never!

McIlroy. Bracewell.

Lineker's there. Lineker.

And in comes Jennings with one hand.

He's done it once again. Five seconds of normal time to go.

And it's all over. No injury time and Northern Ireland have done it!

Billy Bingham dances with joy.

# You're sad

# And I know I can make you happy

# With the one thing that you never had

# Baby, I'm your man

# Don't you know that... #

We wish them to consider carefully who they have

casual sexual relationships with, because you don't know whether your partner is infected or not.

# If you're gonna do it do it right

# Do it with me

We don't really talk about it.

Sometimes you joke about it, but that's it.

Does it worry you?

Not really. I don't think I'm likely to catch it anyway, but...

Everybody's saying they could catch it. Everybody's in danger.

# Yeah, I

# I get to know your name

# When I

# Could trace your private number, baby... #

INDISTINCT

-He thinks that Northern Ireland should be proud of this invasion.

# You spin me right round, baby

# Right round like a record, baby

# Right round round round

# You spin me right round, baby

# Right round like a record, baby

# Right round round round... #

No surrender. That's the word.

That's two words, actually!

# And I

# Would like to move in just a little bit closer... #

THEY PERFORM THE HAKA

We did the haka, which is a war dance, and it is really designed to create fear,

and when it's performed by a great number of people, it does have that effect.

APPLAUSE

It's addressed to one Mr King.

"Sir, once again to your shame you are engaged in

"treachery against Ulster and its constitutional integrity."

# Hoo ha hoo ha

# Hoo ha

# Ha

# The animals are winding me up

# The jungle call

# The jungle call

# Hoo ha hoo ha hoo ha hoo ha

# In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a pleasure dome erect

# Moving on keep moving on, yeah... #

# Snow is falling, snow is falling

# All around me, all around me

# Children playing having fun

# Having fun, it's the season of love and understanding

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Merry Christmas, everyone

# Merry Christmas, everyone. #

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