<p> A Special Relationship? Irish Popular Music in Britain</p><p>An interdisciplinary conference hosted at Northumbria University in conjunction with the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster 27 – 28 June 2012</p><p>Conference Programme</p><p>Tuesday 26th June 7.30pm Welcome Event and Book Launch of Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2 by Noel McLaughlin and Martin McLoone. The event takes place in Popolo, 82-84 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NE1 6SG. Directions here</p><p>Wednesday 27th June 9.30 Tea and Coffee Foyer of Lipman Building.</p><p>9.45 Room 0026 Lipman Building: Welcome Address: Dr Noel McLaughlin (Northumbria University)</p><p>10.00 Room 0026 Panel 1: Folk roots and Pop routes: The Irish in Britain Dave Laing, Freelance writer and academic, ‘Clare to Here: the Irish dimension of the English Folk Revival’ </p><p>Professor Rebecca Miller, Hampshire College, Massachusetts, US ‘Hucklebucking at the Tea Dances: Irish Showbands in 1960s Britain’ Q&A/Discussion</p><p>11.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building</p><p>11.30 Room 0026 Panel 2: Van Morrison: The Dweller on the Threshold? Professor Stephen Regan, Durham University ‘The Allusive Van Morrison’ </p><p>Dr Peter Mills, Leeds Metropolitan University Paper title: ‘Song of Home - Van Morrison and the idea of exile’</p><p>1 Q&A/Discussion</p><p>1.00 – Lunch Room 032 Lipman Building </p><p>2.00 Panel 3. The Irish in Britain in the 1970s: The ‘Popular’ and the ‘Serious’. Dr Gerry Smyth, Liverpool John Moores – [email protected] Paper title: ‘The interesting case of Val Doonican’</p><p>Dr Matteo Cullen Paper title: ‘From The Clifton Grange to Ladbroke Grove and the Isle of Wight: Irish Rock and Britain, 1968-78’ Q&A/Discussion </p><p>3.15. Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building </p><p>3.45 Panel 4. Music, politics and contact zones Anthony Walker, University of St Andrews. ‘Piping in a Time of Peace - The influence of terrorism on Irish Traditional Music’ </p><p>Gareth Dylan Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, London. ‘“Everybody's Welcome to the Hooley! A haon, do, trí, ceathair!”: A case study of a London-Irish trad/punk musician’ Q&A/Discussion </p><p>7.30 Dinner at El Torero Restaurant, Milburn House, Side City Centre, NE1 1PR. Directions here</p><p>2 Thursday 28th June</p><p>9.30 Tea and Coffee – Lipman Foyer</p><p>10.00 Opening Keynote: Dr Sean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin University. Q&A/Discussion </p><p>11.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building</p><p>11.30 Panel 5: Over-views and Comparative Contexts Professor Martin McLoone, University of Ulster ‘Authenticity and Hybridity in Irish Popular Music’ </p><p>Professor Richard Ekins, University of Ulster ‘“Dying Embers”, Maintaining Authenticity and New Orleans Jazz Revivalism: The Case of Liverpool's Merseysippi Jazz Band’ Q&A/Discussion </p><p>1.00 Lunch Room 032 Lipman Building</p><p>2.00 Panel 6. Irish post-punk in Britain Dr Claire Monk, De Montfort University ‘The Virgin Prunes in England’ </p><p>Dr Kevin J. Donnelly, Southampton University </p><p>‘“Heresie” or “A New Form of Beauty”: the Inassimilable Virgin Prunes’ [email protected] Q&A/Discussion </p><p>3.15 Tea and Coffee Room 032 Lipman Building</p><p>3 3.30 Panel 7. On the Edges of Irishness? Dr Noel McLaughlin, Northumbria University ‘Peripherally Queer: Inbetween-ness and Mary Cigarettes’</p><p>Michael Waugh, Northumbria University ‘“Jynweythek Ylow” (“Machine Music”): Futuristic Braindance, Celtic Pastoralism & Hybridised Irishness in the Aphex Twin Myth’ Q&A and Closing Round table. </p><p>Directions to Campus Lipman Building is number 15 on the Campus map below</p><p>4</p>