In the late sixties, I played at a quasi-legal club called the Felons Club. It was an after hours club and was, as its name implies, a Republican meeting place. When I was there, Belfast was still reeling from events like the raid on the Divis Tower by the UDF or whatever the UDF was calling itself then. There were also some folk venues around Queens College but most of the traditional and protest singing was politically dangerous, not that we were deterred for a minute. I always figured that I would be able to get out of any jams by ripping off a few stanzas of The Sash My Father Wore but it never came to that.

Mike Miller