Ireland in 50 Albums, No 13: Spring is coming.... Roger Doyle/Operating Theatre

Roger Doyle and Olwen Foueré were at the heart of Operating Theatre, a rare group in Ireland using a Fairlight synthesiser in the 1980s. They even had Bono helping out on their single/EP, Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth 

Roger Doyle and Olwen Foueré - the nucleus of Dublin performance group Operating Theatre.

Having undertaken a body of work in contemporary composition in the late 1970s, Dublin musician Roger Doyle was among the first in Ireland to come to terms with the rise of electronic instrumentation and workstations. This pioneering work would later earn him the sobriquet of the ‘Godfather of Irish Electronic Music’.

With an initial interest in composing for stage, he worked alongside equally bold souls in the emerging Project Arts Centre in Dublin - where an encounter with young actor Olwen Foueré would bring about a new collaboration.