Cork band Microdisney turning back the clock

As Cork legends Microdisney re-form to play their classic album in Dublin and London, Ed Power chats to the band and some of their early champions

One afternoon early in 1985 two Irish exiles found themselves in the departure lounge of a Polish airport, cradling a year’s supply of cherry vodka. Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan had taken their band, Microdisney, on an unlikely tour of the former Soviet Bloc, highlights of which included ghosting down chillingly deserted East German motorways and, passing a road accident in Poland, seeing their first dead bodies.