Cypress Mine’s blast from the past

Cypress Mine have some epic memories, writes Ellie O’Byrne

IT WAS all so promising. By 1988, Cork four-piece rock band, Cypress, Mine! had supported bands like Aztec Camera, Echo and The Bunnymen, and U2, released their first album, Exit Trashtown, and were getting extensive airplay for their latest single, ‘Sugar Beet God’. But by May of 1989, the band had folded.

“I suppose, we got bored of the whole thing,” says former vocalist, Ciarán O’Tuama. “We were in talks with people, but I remember just getting frustrated that it wasn’t happening. We just kind of went our separate ways; there were no hard feelings, as such.”