Passion For Punk

Drummer and lyricist Paul Burgess said that there’s a genuine passion and appetite for punk music once again in Northern Ireland.

18:37 30 April 2015

Punk band Ruefrex, which was formed in 1977, is once again playing music after members have formally came together to play in a concert in June last year. Drummer and lyricist Paul Burgess said that there’s a genuine passion and appetite for punk music once again in Northern Ireland. 

 

"We are planning to bring out a new album. It's important for us to be alive and kicking because there is a genuine passion and appetite for punk music once again in Northern Ireland," he said.

 

He added: "It's an amazing feeling that people want to hear us again."

 

Reufrex played for around eight years until members Allan Clarke, Tom Coulter, Jackie Forgie, and Paul Burgess went their separate ways in 1985. 

 

"The reunion happened by chance. Tom's brother, Colin, an academic, invited me to speak in a conference in National University of Ireland Maynooth, in June last year. He proposed, why don't we perform once again?" said Burgess.

 

"It looked difficult then but ultimately, we did perform at a fundraising programme in Belfast. That was our second gig in the past 20 years."