The album features the 12' version of the single (radio edit below) and it's as fine a piece of rock song writing from the era as you are likely to hear, thudding bass and drums with beckoning acoustic guitar create a punchy anthem.ДЄnother live track on the album, also from The Mean Fiddler gig (that must have been some show), 'Song of Love' packs a punch yet again, evidence of CWN's ability to traverse both studio and stage with ease. Next up is the bands third single from their debut album, 'Years Later', lighter and more optimistic in it's tone, it feels like a snapshot of 1986 Cactus World News, standing on the precipice of their boyhood rock n' roll dreams, reaching skyward, ready to take their mantle. Similar to the opening track on that album, Found begins with swagger with the superb '1975', the opening line of 'On the night General Franco died, I felt blue.' precedes a lovely hazy strum of the electric guitar, punk traits evident in the songs political reflection of Francisco Franco's dubious reign which only ended with his death that year. Having picked up a first press of Urban Beaches from an online seller in Denmark a couple of months back, I was familiar with some of the tracks, as well as some other well-known numbers I'd familiarised myself with previously. 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.

Sadly, as is quite common, outside forces conspired to halt what was hoped at the time would be a temporary interruption to their voyage. 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. 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. 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. Info:В 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. 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. 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. It could be said that the seeds of this journey were planted years before however, Kearns attended Mount Temple school 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. 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. Intro: 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.

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