It may have been in hibernation these past few years as a record label, but Setanta returns in May as the publisher of head honcho Keith Cullen’s first novel, God Save The Village Green, which we’re guessing is a nod to his beloved Kinks.
Born in Dun Laoghaire in 1968, Cullen moved to London in 1985 and five years later set up Setanta whose roster at various times included The Divine Comedy, Edwyn Collins, Richard Hawley, The Frank & Walters, Catchers and The Chalets.
God Save The Village Green is “a vicious portrait of a London-Irish family at odds with itself. An explicit kitchen-sink drama set in Barking, London between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s, it centres on dysfunction, lost opportunities and violent, drunken reactions in a family that’s coming apart at the seams.”