88. Dervish, the promotional poster for Playing With Fire.
Just to quote from the diary I kept back in 1995, when I was living in Dublin, Ireland.
Saturday 17/3
10:20pm. Ormond Centre.
This place is a basement, set up like a cafe.
11:05pm
The band's late, "Irish time", and the support band was shite.
Saturday 18/3
7:40am
But Dervish were brilliant. Intense and loud. Cathy Jordan with a massive stage presence and utterly compelling. On stage 'til about 2:15, but the time passing quickly. On the way out, asked 'security' if I could take one of the three Dervish posters from the back wall. I took the reply to mean that I could, but the reply was so backward logicked that I still wasn't sure, even while I was removing it. Stuck at the bottom and stapled at the top. Detaching it carefully, still managed a 3" rip. Damn. But it's huge, life-size, featuring Cathy herself dancing through the fire, in either the same dress she wore at the gig, or she has a huge wardrobe of vaguely hippy-ish dresses.
Got it back to the apartment, safely rolled up. |