Bands or bust

Wonderland: The Men Who Won't Stop Marching

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This programme on BBC2 looked at life in the Shankill's bands, through the lives of three families, though one young kid stole the show, basically by being innocent of half of what was going on around him. Despite being on at the same time as The Apprentice, it made a few papers, but none of them in NI, strangely! Here's what the media has to say about it:

• The Independent has a sympathetic and self-aware first paragraph in its review by Tom Sutcliffe, aptly subtitled, "Pride and prejudice"
  



• Good photo in another review



• Well-written review alerted me to a site I wasn't aware of, called The Arts Desk.

The bottom line was that there wasn't much else going on for the teenagers, so if you weren't in the bands, it was hanging out on street corners.