One nation under a groove: Uncovering the  lost records of Irish funk

When you see a record and it has a track called Boogie On Up, it’s not going to be country and Irish A pair of Cork-based crate diggers have assembled a wonderfully-titled compilation of Irish funk records, writes Don O’Mahony.

For those who believe that funk and groove based music was something that only emerged in Ireland in the 1990s, a new compilation pulls back to covers to reveal emerging pockets of funk in the 1970s and 1980s.

Against the seedy underbelly of showbands and Country & Irish on one side and the folk revival on the other, popular music in 1970s Ireland was a morass of blues-rock, Celtic rock and any other kind of rock you could think of.