B-Side the Leeside: Ten Past Seven - Shut Up Your Face

B-Side The Leeside: At a time of change for the music scene in Cork, a trio of Kerry ‘bog-proggers’ carved their own instrumental niche in inimitable style

Rory O'Brien of Ten Past Seven. Pic: Shane Serrano

While the many degrees of romanticism and longing for bygone eras of Leeside music are often backed up by incredible tunes and stories that could only emerge from a city like Cork, by the time the 2000s rolled around, wider changes in the music business had taken their effect.

Audiences and venues came and went, mainstream music press and radio retreated into a now-ingrained conservatism as the internet loomed, and the slowdown of the CD boom was already underway.  Into this breach stepped a new generation of Cork rockers, emboldened by a more eclectic palate of influences.