B-Side the Leeside: Waiting Room - Catering For Headphones

Cork's Greatest Records: A studio fire and a stolen van are just part of Waiting Room's eventful story 
B-Side the Leeside: Waiting Room - Catering For Headphones

Waiting Room: Nigel Farrelly, Dave Ahern and Wayne Dunlea.  Picture Maurice O'Mahony

On Thursday, September 25 2003, Dave Ahern, Wayne Dunlea and Nigel Farrelly huddled on a kerbside in Blackpool on Cork’s northside, watching flames rise into the sky. From where they stood, it may have seemed their future was going up in smoke.

Shortly after 2pm a fire had ripped through the old Sunbeam factory on the Mallow Road. 

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