Ireland in 50 Albums, No 30: Butterfly Effect, by Sack (1997)
John Brereton and Martin McCann of Sack holding a copy of their Butterfly Effect album. Picture: Paul McDermott
Dublin band Sack spent two years living in London, releasing records and touring up and down Britain. By 1995 their record label had ceased trading and as a new musical movement began to take hold Sack decided that it might be time to come home.
“I can remember being in The Green Man pub late on a Tuesday night. Top of the Pops was recorded on Tuesdays and we walked in, everyone was there Blur, Pulp and Elastica, all just hanging around,” recalls John Brereton, Sack’s guitarist and principal songwriter. “It was just great to be in that scene, but ultimately it probably was a bad thing for an Irish band to be around as well, because you didn’t get a sniff of interest really.”
