FINGLAS, DUBLIN

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OVERVIEW Mrs.Cullen gave birth to three sons in succession, all following within 11 months of each other, Mark, Darren and Jason respectively. The family home was a flat in a tenement house which used to be a brothel in the thirties. Eamon De Valera's decentralisation plan forced the young Cullen family to Finglas, a new suburb onthe north side of the city which had the dubious honour of being hailed as the worst blackspot in Ireland for crime, vandalism and unemployment, so bad in fact that it had four television programmes devoted to discussing the areas problems. Mrs Cullen had a really had habit of making her three sons wear the same clothes and giving them the same bowl haircut, which in turn forced Mark, Darren and Jason to be quite violent in order to avoid ridicule from their peers. Their next door neighbours were a family called the McBrides, who had a son "Stephen" a sworn adversary of the Cullen boys and who later became their bass player. Eamon De Valera's decentralisation plan forced the young Cullen family to Finglas, a new suburb onthe north side of the city which had the dubious honour of being hailed as the worst blackspot in Ireland for crime, vandalism and unemployment, so bad in fact that it had four television programmes devoted to discussing the areas problems. This religious freak of a mother with typically pagan Irish superstitions, decided to send the three boys to a "Christian Brothers" school in the hope they would mix with fellows of the right kidney. However ,in typical joycean fasion, Mark revelled in the hypocrisy, until at the age of 16 while contemplating joining the priesthood, he was promptly expelled for asking one of the Christian Brothers how could he ever become he had sexual feeling and how come the brother had no sexual urges. It was around that time that they formed the band. Seven years, 15 failed relationships, 22 funerals, 4 births and 3 car accidents later, they've managed to record their debut album "Year Zero" preceded by 3 critically acclaimed singles which due to Bawl's hatred of "predictability" have omitted from the album. So "Year Zero" is Mark's tale of religion, sex politics, tea cloths, housewives, teenage pregnancy, pyeball horses, ex boyfriends, lust, celibacy, priests, chastity, money, bean burgers, mechanics, Hank Williams and his country gents, child abuse and script writers all set to Darren's glorious sound track which if it were a film, would be a "Kubrick" soundtrack to a "Coronation Street" story line. Biography Taken From : This Bawl Website 1995 - Release of 'Bathroom' single 1996 - Release of 'Girls Night Out' single - Release of 'Year Zero' album - Release of 'Glen Campbell Nights' single - Release of 'Beyond Safeways' single - Release of 'Sticky Rock' single - Release of 'He's All That's Great About Pop' single