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