am i right in thinking that might have been a man called michael dugger? yeah, i m seeing him in a few days time. i m going to have to remonstrate with him over that. former labour mp. the head of the music industry. indeed. do i take no for an answer? no. i ve never been very good at that. stroppy? well, i ll discuss that with michael further. we can expand on that one. i would deny the former charge and probably have to concede the latter one. what about former punk rocker? do you think of yourself as a punk? because undertones clearly came in that era, but i looked at a video of you the other day, there you were, not with the kind of spiky hair, not with the safety pins. you were there with a smart jacket, a white shirt. not that different from you today. listen, you know, it was a moment in time. where there things called punk rock and derry? probably not. were we at the time, developing a young band and five
my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he began life in the bogside in derry.. as we will hear, he is now her out to people from the green party, to the readers of the daily telegraph, the countryside alliance, to surfers against sewage circle. welcome to political thinking. yet or thank you for having me. now, you have been described, i saw, for having me. now, you have been described, isaw, as for having me. now, you have been described, i saw, as a stroppy former punk rocker who will not take no for an answer. you plead guilty?
..you know, island of st lucia, they came from there still have laws which criminalise gay sex. i mean, shouldn t you be raising your voice and saying, no, this is not correct in the 21st century. you can t have that ? well, i think when i made young soul rebels, in 1991, which went to cannes, won a prize, was a feature film, that was like. i should just say, that was a film about a love story, a gay love affair between a white punk rocker and a black dj. precisely. and, in a way, i think that did send sort of waves, and i think that kind of was making an intervention into the public sphere, which very much, i mean, has recently been sort of revived and shown in cinemas, and audiences today are really quite struck by that work.
raising your voice and saying, no, this is not correct in the 21st century. you can t have that ? well, i think when i made young soul rebels, in 1991, which went to cannes, won a prize, was a feature film, that was like. i should just say, that was a film about a love story, a gay love affair between a white punk rocker and a black dj. precisely. and, in a way, i think that did send sort of waves, and i think that kind of was making an intervention into the public sphere, which very much, i mean, has recently been sort of revived and shown in cinemas, and audiences today are really quite struck by that work. and so, i think there s a way in which one s making those kinds of films. but i think there s also the space for other types of work, which are sort of, in a way, films which are sort of. ..i would say, have a longevity
but, i mean, should you not raise your voice more loudly? you said, you know, look, i m an activist as well as an artist. and i say to you, 11 caribbean states including your parents . ..you know, island of st lucia, they came from there still have laws which criminalise gay sex. i mean, shouldn t you be raising your voice and saying, no, this is not correct in the 21st century. you can t have that ? well, i think when i made young soul rebels, in 1991, which went to cannes, won a prize, was a feature film, that was like. i should just say, that was a film about a love story, a gay love affair between a white punk rocker and a black dj. precisely. and, in a way, i think that did send sort of waves, and i think that kind of was making an intervention into the public sphere, which very much, i mean, has recently been sort of revived and shown in cinemas, and audiences today are really quite struck by that work. and so, i think there s a way in which one s making those kinds of fil