From Unity, 21 May 2005

Who are the Domino Effect?
When the travelling squad leave these shores in June to take part in the Fourteenth UZ* Festival in Dortmund we are going to have our own band with us. No, not the Sands Family (they are going as well): we are talking about three fifteen-year-old musicians from Limavady.
    They met at school and started playing together two years ago. Besides the unusual name (which, according to their front man, Liam McNulty, was chosen after “flicking through a political dictionary”), they are not your ordinary boy group in many other ways.
    They don’t cover other bands at all but play their own stuff only. According to Liam, “we find it boring to play other people’s music, so we write our own.”
    Their style is certainly rock-influenced (vocals and electric guitar, bass, and drums); but Liam, who sings and plays the guitar, says: “We’re not really rockers; it’s just our own stuff. Why does music always have to be categorised?”
    Good stuff it is, and the folk legend Tommy Sands was going to feature them in his radio show on Downtown Radio, but he has to wait until after the UZ Festival. “That’s our launch gig,” Liam says. “Everything else has to wait.”
    They have consented to give the crowd at the Olga Benario film a song or two, because some of the travelling squad will be there—“to give them a taste of us.”
    Why do three fifteen-year-olds from County Derry want to introduce themselves to the world at a communist festival in Germany? How did they find out about it? “Anderbap—that’s our drummer—knows Marion Baur. Sure everybody knows her out here; her face was stuck to every lamp-post during the elections. But Anderbap knows her a bit better; the families are friends. She told him about it, and we thought, ‘Sounds good.’ We’ve never been at a political meeting, but, as our name might suggest, we think about these things. The big festival seems to us like a mixture of meeting and gigantic gig. We know we’re very lucky to get there, and we’re dead curious.’
    So are many people about the Domino Effect, over there and over here.


*Unsere Zeit (“our time”), weekly paper of the German Communist Party.

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