'We were altered by it': Jacknife Lee on working on Cathal Coughlan's final album 

The California-based producer found out during the making of the Teilifís records that the Cork singer didn't have long to live

Telefís: Garret 'Jacknife' Lee and Cathal Coughlan.

When Cork singer Cathal Coughlan and his band, the Fatima Mansions, covered REM’s Shiny Happy People in 1992, it was an act of exquisite music vandalism. 

“F**k your showbusiness, most of all f**k your show business,” Coughlan had proclaimed halfway through the tune, his voice a thunderous squall. This was evisceration as art, a poetic condemnation of REM”s major label success.