That gave me an itch. In collaboration with the Good Law Project he now plans to launch a judicial review of the way the agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have managed Englands rivers. 3:35 PREVIEW Someone To Somebody. The band eventually fell apart in 1983, after which Sharkey teamed up with Vince Clarke in a one-off project called "The Assembly". 12 on the UK and No. Since 1978, hes encountered strangers who want to talk about The Undertones or his solo work. What a glorious, extraordinary, humbling experience that is. The problem is that the government have done the classic knee-jerk, Whitehall, bureaucratic reaction and produced a process and its designed to make everyone look like theyre being busy and doing things, but all of it, quite frankly, is utterly meaningless and pointless. The singer told another writer that I was slagged all the time back in secondary school. Jan 16. There was a fly-fishing club and a fly-tying club at school, provided by the Christian Brothers. Dealing with the chalk streams is one thing but I didnt for one second think that 25 million people here are on the verge of running out of drinking water.. And rather stupidly, I scratched that itch. Not a very big one, but a slightly bigger one than everybody else. However, the copy they sent to John Peel, well-known BBC Radio 1 DJ, brought in good news. That gave me an itch. [25] He is Chairman of the Amwell Magna Fishery. In January 2008, he was appointed the Chairman of British Music Rights. 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I call him up on a Sunday bank holiday and I apologise for the inconvenience of this afternoon chat. These precious little things are dying., There is now, he says, 10 times more coral reef than chalk streams. "" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory. There was no heavy-duty stuff. The whole experience of having to take the Environment Agency to the doors of the High Court to get an issue resolved just left me with a big question in my mind. Did you keep the fishing up when you were with the Undertones? Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. Finally in February 1977, they got their first fully-paid job, being hired by a pub called Cashback on 30 per sitting. I say this with love and respect to my colleagues at the fishery, but if a bunch of ugly, cantankerous middle-aged old men like us, far too used to getting their own way in life, has to go to those kind of lengths just to get the Environmental Agency to do the right thing, then what the hell is going on? Genuinely witty, his conversation even about complex issues is animated, persuasive and captivating. Sharkey followed up the single with the Tench-written "You Little Thief". Ask Allison: I regret having a baby. Sharkey was catapulted to stardom in 1978 when shortly after leaving school, a career delivering televisions for Radio Rentals was interrupted by a request from the BBC to appear on Top of the Pops to perform The Undertones first single, Teenage Kicks. His best-known solo material is the 1985 UK chart-topping single penned by Lone Justice frontwoman Maria McKee, "A Good Heart", which went to No. So heres the thing, Mr Government, its a very easy game to play. Yet when he joined The Undertones in 1976, his voice was not appreciated at first. They still do. We are unable to process if the duo has a daughter or not. People would actually run across the road to spit on him, Terri remembers. Manage Settings The Amwell Magna Fishery the oldest fishing club in England owns two-and-a-half miles of the River Lea in Hertfordshire. Feargal described the volume of overflow as shocking and said that it demonstrated why the countrys water infrastructure needs a radical overhaul. In terms of England, its about 72 billion quid. I effectively retired 10 years ago and was quite looking forward to it, he admits. 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We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Former The Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey is to receive a Queens birthday honour for services to music. Feargal had the soul, the vibrato and the capacity to reach into the lonely depths of the song. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Indeed, to his huge irritation Sharkey discovered there are only 225 chalk streams on the entire planet, 85% of which are in southern England and we are destroying them. This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 07:23. In October, he moved to UK Music as its CEO, retiring from there on 11 November 2011. Meanwhile in March 1978, they recorded a demo tape and sent its copies to various record companies, only to receive rejection letters. Enter email address Im in the middle of this protest march, walking down the middle of the dual carriageway waving what I later figured out was an anarchist flag, taking part in this Peoples Democracy March, which was the real left-wing end of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland. And I will happily, quietly, and successfully go back into my retirement and with some pleasure leave you alone. | ITV News Anglia I love my son but I hate my life. 22 on the Ireland chart. People cried when they heard it. Feargal Sharkey: There is not a single river in England that is not polluted not one. The musical bit of my career? 1. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ipso, A Mediahuis Website He also began to play the songs at his program and very soon, the title song, Teenage Kicks, became very popular. He had ambitions beyond The Undertones and by 1985 he was recording with Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics. Do you feel like youre making any progress politically? There is not a single chalk stream that is not suffering from extensive environmental damage.. When we meet, Sharkey has just spent a couple of hours watching wild brown trout feasting on mayfly on a river in north London. 1 in several countries including the UK in late 1985. Replying to @Feargal_Sharkey. He has declined several offers to sing with the reformed Undertones. Its quite easy working for record companies to get sucked into just incredible, lunatic hours. Ive given away so many copies of that over the years, going up to random strangers in the street, saying here, you need this in your life., The pandemic, he says, has afforded many people fresh perspective not only on the environment, but also life. 4:16 PREVIEW Made To Measure. They disbanded soon after this event. My query as to whether club members eat the trout they catch elicits a moment of what I now realise was appalled silence. 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Daley and Feargal Sharkey, D.A. Spending decades standing around in rivers, means he has gained an encyclopedic knowledge on endangered chalk streams and the agencies he says are responsible for letting the nations rivers die on its watch. Their debut album, The Undertones, released in 1979, was a success. The former Undertones lead singer and keen fly fisherman is taking on the water companies and Environment Agency Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. 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After becoming less musically active in the early 1990s, he has performed various roles supporting the UK's commercia But today Rolling Stone UK is speaking to him in his latest incarnation Sharkey the environmentalist, hell bent on saving our rivers from wholesale pollution. What the hell were you doing?, Hes still a powerful advocate for the music industry though. And how they want to fix it. Shortly after leaving school, a promising career delivering televisions for Discover your full benefits as a Premium subscriber. There are still some of us old enough to remember what the past looked like and I dont recommend it. "In this instance, Southern Water and the Environment Agency are pointing the finger at each other and having some sort of dialogue but it's not a dialogue that's producing any results," he said. The river supply was precarious and in 2016, they took the Environment Agency and Thames Water to the High Court in a judicial review. At 11 years old, you could catch a bus in the centre of Derry and be standing on the banks of the river 20 minutes later. 4:41 PREVIEW You Little Thief. The song was Sharkey's only number one single and stayed at the top of the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1985. Does he have a daughter? WebThe Assembly were a British synth-pop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England, by Vince Clarke and Eric Radcliffe. Buy it here. Their final album, The Sin of Pride, was recorded in 1983. Who was Ukrainian minister Denys Monastyrsky? I remember the early demos, and the singing was exactly what you would hear on the first LP, but Billy [Doherty, the drummer] said it was terrible. However, Feargal is currently doing his best work outside the established order. The company added: "A robust and regular maintenance schedule for the outfall where the surface drain with the diesel has been emerging has long been in place. I possibly learned a bad lesson as a 10-year-old: do not ever be afraid of authority. However, it peaked at 22 on the Swedish album chart and at 66 on Australia (Kent Music Report). His campaigning zeal sees him fire out facts and dire warnings at breakneck speed in that still familiar Derry accent, though he claims to have modified it 40 years ago, slowing down because you realise lots of people are just nodding and smiling incredibly kindly and engagingly and respectfully but they clearly dont understand a bloody word you are saying. Twelve years later Adeles just been identified as the most successful album selling artist of all time and that all happened in the last 10 years. His father, Jim Sharkey, an electrician by profession, was an active member of the Electrical Trade Union. The single was released on Madness's label Zarjazz Records in 1984, reaching No. But the former Undertones lead singer is talking with just as much passion and excitement about his lifelong love of fly-fishing as he once sang the bands famous punk anthem. Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter/guitarist Kris McKay performed a version of the song, featured on the soundtrack for the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie Road House. Or 100 times more tigers. A friend bought me a 25 book token for Christmas. Britains water companies have admitted to discharging raw sewage into rivers and seas more than 1,000 times a day in 2021. Entertainment stars have supported calls to stop fuel oil leaking into a protected wetland. EXCLUSIVE: The Undertones frontman has gone from teenage dreams to rivers and streams in his bid to save Britain's waters from catastrophe. Former The Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey is to receive a Queens birthday honour for services to music. Feargal Sharkey Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life Sharkey appeared on BBC Newcastle, interviewed by Simon Logan on the afternoon show on 7 August 2013. Sharkey was on BBC Breakfast today where he was asked about an LBC interview in which Rachel Johnson was interviewing Stanley Johnson about Boris Johnson and, well, you can read more about that here. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. 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Sharkey's debut single was a collaboration with Madness member Cathal Smyth titled "Listen to Your Father". In 1985, he released his debut solo eponymous album, Feargal Sharkey, which contained ten tracks including his single hits, A Good Heart and You Little Thief. Thats a very bad lesson to learn when youre 10 years old.. No. It peaked at No 27 on the UK Albums Chart and at 41 on the Swedish Album Chart. [18], Sharkey was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music. Its the result of 30 years of industry and political failure Feargal Sharkey is a campaigner and Do you ever wish you could just chill out? Send your story ideas to [email protected]. Later he became the managing director of EXP Ltd. @rogw1. The album peaked at No 12 on UK Album chart and 7 on Australia (Kent Music Report) chart, apart from being certified UK Gold. 3. [citation needed] Undertones remained with Cashback for the next eighteen months. Strangely though, he was often abused in Derry. In 2008, he was awarded Honorary Doctor of Arts by the University of Hertfordshire. He swears plenty and his fury is unchecked. Free registration for attendees is at www.gamefishingfestival.com and further info can be found at www.honourableirishsociety.org.uk/home, The Belfast Telegraph is a member of IPSO and subscribes to its Editors' Code of Practice After becoming less musically active in the early 1990s, he has performed various roles supporting the UK's commercial music industry, winning several awards and honours for his work in that area. Feargal Sharkey has a lasting memory of the Peoples Democracy march in January 1969. I was thinking, who the hell are these people? Sign Up. Do check out his profile to learn more about him., In the mid1990s, Feargal moved into the music business, beginning as an A&R for Polydor Records, and afterward as the managing director of EXP. But then wed an issue around lack of water and loss of flow. Kenneth Grahames Wind in the Willows was set on a chalk stream. For his contribution in the field of music, he has also received various other awards including the Scott Piering Award in 2004 and the Bottle Award in 2006. Sharkey became chairman of the UK Government task force the 'Live Music Forum' in 2004, to evaluate the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on the performance of live music,[6] and gave public evidence before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee[7] on 11 November 2008. Replying to. 13 August 1958 (age 64) Born In Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Feargal Sharkey (born Sean Feargal Sharkey on 13 August 1958, in Derry, Northern Ireland, UK) is a singer who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones (1975), famous for the hit single "Teenage Kicks". Feargal Sharkey has gone from reeling in the top 10 hits to becoming an eco warrior fighting to protect the perilous state of Britains rivers. Sharkey is best known for his 1985 solo single, A Good Heart. I had a real tough time just cos I wasnt one of the boot boys. This is what Sharkey had to say and its two minutes very well spent. Still, Teenage Kicks, released in 1978 on Terri Hooleys Good Vibrations label, was sure proof of the impact. Theres a second layer to that: that if youre going to do something, anything, in life, then do it properly. He retired ten years ago, devoting extra time to his passion for fly fishing. I actually dont want to be doing this. I really like him., The point being, Sharkey says, when you get it down to that kind of level when youd had that cut-through to the man in the street, its game over. The turmoil stirred up by Brexit concerns him. Theyre not the Teenage Kicks that Feargal Sharkey is most associated with hopping on a bus to escape Troubles-torn Seventies Londonderry by spending a few The Financial Times described me as the water industrys bte noire. Cookie Policy 12 hit single "I've Got News for You". He adds with discernible pride: I have recently been described in The Salmon and Trout magazine as a stroppy punk rocker disinclined to take no for an answer. Enter email address VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. Feargal Sharkey It definitely is.. you have to blame the govt for this whole sorry mess the industry is out of control & its our rivers & beaches that are picking up the tab for that profiteering pic.twitter.com/PNLka94zH7, Haggis_UK (@Haggis_UK) August 22, 2022. That made me curious. He might be just what these unique and delicate ecosystems need. Welcome! Sean Feargal Sharkey was born on 13 August 1958 in Derry (Northern Ireland) He found fame as the lead singer of the Undertones, whose singles provided some of the best punk-pop of the late 70's. But after just spending five minutes with the pop star, it is clear that he is just as passionate and excited about his lifelong love of fly-fishing as he was when he sang his bands famous punk anthem. Im very proud of everything Ive done and desperately grateful for being allowed the opportunity to do it all.. [1] They had several UK hits, with songs such as "Teenage Kicks", "Here Comes The Summer", "My Perfect Cousin", "Wednesday Week" and "It's Going to Happen!". The mention of how his father lived until the great age of 99 prompts more good humour: I do threaten my family theres a fine tradition in the male side of the Sharkeys of everybody living until at least their mid-90s so if they think theyre going to see the back of me any day soon theyre badly mistaken.. Its wrong, its immoral and it shouldnt be happening. That, somewhat unfortunately, gave me an itch and rather stupidly I scratched that itch and now I realise that every time I scratch that itch I just end up with a bigger itch.. The early nineties brought a new beginning and a post-match transfer to the administration side of the industry, initially as A&R manager for Polydor Records, more late nights in transport cafes, and then as managing director of EXP Ltd. Feargal has also served as a member of the Radio Authority and in 2004 was appointed chair of the Live Music Forum, an advisory committee established by Government to monitor and evaluate the impact of the Licensing Act 2003 on the performance of live music. Or Martin Lewis, banging on about family finances. The former Undertones frontman tells of his passion for the environment, why he turned away from fame and how he predicted the Irish Sea border, Feargal Sharkey (Photo by Fergus McDonald/Getty Images), The Undertones. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. They are some of the rarest habitats on Earth and about 85 per cent of them are here in southern and south-east England. In 1983 their single "Never Never" was a No. He became chairman of the Amwell Magna Fishery in Hertfordshire, which owns two and half miles of chalk stream along the River Lea. In Derry, because of the location, I could get on a bus in the centre of town and go in one direction, and 20 minutes later find myself on the banks of the River Faughan, with a fairly reasonable possibility of catching the salmon. But there's more: discover your full benefits now. Feargal Sharkey was born on 13 August 1958 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. I was waving what I later worked out was an anarchist flag. So I got into this thing that every five or six weeks, I would deliberately take off a long weekend and go and just do something really nice. When the band split, hed a brief collaboration with Vince Clarke in The Assembly (Never, Never charted at number four) before enjoying a sharp-suited solo career that delivered a number one single with A Good Heart. In early 1983, differences began to surface among the member of The Undertones. However, they remained together until July in order to fulfill agreed commitments, performing several gigs across Europe, playing their last concert in County Kildare in Ireland on 17th. Sharkey, unaware that there was already another group called Eddie and the Hot Rods, said it was The Hot Rod. Kunkel and Larson were married until her death in 1997. [15], In 2009 he entered The Guardian's MediaGuardian 100, described as the "MediaGuardian's annual guide to the most powerful people in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital media, media business, advertising, marketing and PR", at number 56. 8 on the Ireland Chart. His rendition of How Soft Upon the Evening Air apparently left an adjudicator in tears. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Every single one is being slowly poisoned by sewage, he said. Only 16 per cent are considered to have good ecological status. Chalk streams hold a special place in fishermens hearts but they are also important ecologically. He is the only member of the Radio Authority to have been honoured in this way by the radio industry. [11], In 2011 Sharkey made a one-off appearance in a set named Erasure + Special Guests singing Never Never. 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