One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Music
Here's a song I wrote for my play, The Quare Fellow, based on my prison experiences:
THE OLD TRIANGLE
A hungry feeling came o'er me stealing
And the mice were squealing
In my prison cell
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
To begin the morning
The warder's bawling
"Get out of bed
And clean up your cell"
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
On a fine spring evening
The lag lay dreaming
The seagulls wheeling
High above the wall
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
The screw was peeping
The lag was sleeping
While he lay weeping
For his girl Sal
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
The wind was rising
And the day declining
As I lay pining
In my prison cell
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
In the female prison
There are seventy women
I wish it was with them
That I did dwell
Then the old triangle
Could go jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
The day was dying
And the wind was sighing
As I lay crying
In my prison cell
And the old triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
All along the banks
Of the Royal Canal
Movies
They recently turned my masterpiece, Borstal Boy, into a film.
Television
I've been kicked off of my share of television interviews. It's not my fault, it's all that drink in the Green Rooms!
Books
Borstal Boy, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Brendan Behan's Island, Brendan Behan's New York, Hold Your Hour and Have Another, The Scarperer, The King of Ireland's Son
Heroes
Theobald Wolfe Tone, Michael Collins, Padraig (Patrick Henry) Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh, Sean MacDermott, Joseph Plunkett, Eamonn Ceannt, Arthur Guinness, Saint Brendan the Navigator, my wife Beatrice
About me: I was born on February 9, 1923 in the Holles Street Hospital in Dublin. I had the great fortune of being born into a strong Republican family. My uncle, for example, Peadar Kearney, penned the Irish National Anthem, "Amhran na bhFiann". When I was born, my father was in a British prison for his involvement in the Irish uprising of 1916-1922. I was in a youth organization connected with the IRA at the ripe age of nine, was an IRA messenger boy in the late '30s, and was sentenced to three years in Borstal for attempting to blow up a battleship in Liverpool harbour when I was 17. I returned to Ireland upon my release from Borstal, but was quickly sentenced to 14 years at Mountjoy Prison and the Curragh Military Camp for the attempted murder of two detectives. I finished that stint early, thanks to a general amnesty for IRA prisoners, but found myself in the flowery dell again, less than a year later, for helping an IRA prisoner escape. On each prison experience, it was not really the length of the sentence that worried me - for I had always believed that if a fellow went into the IRA at all he should be able to throw the handle after the hatchet, die dog or shite the licence. All those high walls gave me plenty of time to collect my thoughts, however, and I began to write. That's enough for now. If you want any more, you should buy my books! I started out with plays, and moved into prose when it felt right. ..
THE DIRTY OLD ONE MAN HILLBILLY-BLUES-COUNTRY-METAL BAND IS BACK ON THURSDAY FEB. 4TH AT THE RHYTHM ROOM. COLONEL J.D. WILKES/FRONTMAN OF TH' LEGENDARY CHACK SHAKERS WILL BERE WITH HIS NEW PROJECT; THE DIRT DAUBERS - SEE YOU THERE?
DON'T FORGET THE RETURN OF REVEREND PEYTONS BIG DAMN BAND w/ SODA ON THURSDAY JAN. 28TH AT THE RHYTHM ROOM. THE SCOTT H. BIRAM SHOW IS NOT TOO BE MISSED THOUGH. IT'S MANDATORY....
ALL OF THESE EVENTS INCLUDE ARTISTS THAT PERFORMED ON THE HILLGRASS BLUEBILLY RECORDS DEBUT: HIRAM & HUDDIE
Stevie Nicks meets Shania Twain meets Nora Jones, together with Irish musicians "The Black Donnellys", came up with the name Colette Kavanagh. What could be better than that. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/colettekavanagh
The Guardian: "The Popes' excellent Outlaw Heaven album is what The Waterboys would have sounded like had Mike Scott sipped from the streams of whiskey."
Q Review: "Rouses like only the very best of Irish Folk can.."
Uncut: "It’s a chaotic, red-blooded mix of punk, rockabilly, Celtic and country, surging to ferocious peaks"
Clash Magazine - 8/10: "Watch the fireworks start flying again. This isn’t just an Irish party album with fire in its belly, it’s also the most warm, celebratory and downright mortal LP you’re likely to hear in 2009." 8/10
Daily Mirror: "The indestructible Shane MacGowan assists Paul McGuinness' crew on an album which is a rowdy blend of crude metal and broken-bottle folk rock"
Hi Brendan! Sometimes heavy stuff has to be uploaded, so did we with our new track „Crooked ways“. Comments are welcome as usual, crank it up & enjoy, Razorheads
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Vinyl 7" record out June 23 2009 on Electric Nerve Records
Limited Edition of 500 on clockwork orange vinyl
First 100 copies signed.
Cover model Szandora Lavey, photographed by Giddle Partridge
visit her website Szandora.com
art Dave Glass
