Hot Press is saddened to learn of the death from cancer of Mick Lynch, a lynchpin of the Cork punk scene who headed in 1983 to London where he became a founder member of Stump.
Included on the NME’s influential C86 compilation, they became firm John Peel favourites and got to number 2 in the UK Indie Chart at a time when that meant selling serious amounts of records.
Before crossing the Irish Sea, Mick had helped Our Man In The People’s Republic, Paul O’Mahony, with doing window displays for Hot Press.
The video for ‘Charlton Heston’ shows what a visual as well as a musical force they were.
Stump featured in this 2005 Best Cork Album In The World... Ever! compiled by that man Paul O'Mahony: [link]hotpress.com/archive/2811327.html[/link]