Tom Dunne: 'It was as far from an Irish college bar as you'd imagine'

Playing for an impossibly beautiful audience in Davis, California, left me scarred on all sorts of levels

Something Happens: 'Bands are supposed to be like a youthful Mick Jagger, godlike, lithe and untouchable.'

Fri, 10 Dec, 2021 - 08:30

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

Davis, California, one of the most beautiful places on earth. The college there is a ‘public Ivy', a prestigious public college that provides an experience not unlike an Ivy League school. It has nearly 40,000 students, all of them, I suspect, beautiful, wealthy and sun-kissed.

They are Democrats, like their parents before them and their parents before that. Go back far enough and you’ll find the actual people behind the massacre of the Patwin Indians and the land Commission of 1852 that was once described as “fraudulent in all its parts” and “impossible to contemplate without disgust.”