EP15 - A Fierce Pancake by Stump

To Here Knows When - Great Irish Albums Revisited

The story of Stump, the Irish-English experimental, rock band from the 1980s. For this episode I revisit Lights! Camel! Action! - the story of Stump, my documentary from 2016. The members of Stump and key figures in their story (legendary producer Hugh Jones, journalists Simon Reynolds and John Robb, Nigel Grainge from Ensign Records, Elvera Butler from the Downtown Kampus at the Arcadia in Cork, "Irish" Jack Lyons and others) tell how the band went from the NME’s C86 cassette to topping the Indie charts. Stump then travelled to the famous Hansa studios in Berlin to record the influential A Fierce Pancake, released on Ensign Records in 1988. Mick Lynch, Stump's enigmatic frontman and lyricist sadly passed away on 17 December, 2015, the documentary is dedicated to his memory. Episode notes are here.