Sordid Details

Sordid Details From; Dublin Active; March 1978 – June 1978
Line up;
Vocals & Guitar; Ingmar Kiang
Bass; Johnny Byrne (R.I.P.)
Drums; Paul Bibby

Ingmar Kiang, son of Chinese-born Irish astronomer Professor Tao Kiang, was a Trinity College student when he co-launched “Dublin’s first mobile Punk Rock disco” in early 1978 with his pal Mark Ryan who worked in a “Grafton Street hamburger restaurant”. Presumably the recently enough opened McDonalds or Captain Americas? 
Fed up with 70’s disco music, the pair launched a DJ night called Snots in TCD’s New Library offering Punk/New Wave and 1950’s Rock n Roll. They told the Sunday Independent (8 January 1978): We’re in it for the fun, we don’t charge in … We toyed first with calling our disco Scabies until a girl friend of mine came up with Snots. (Our posters say) ‘Snots will be appearing under your nose’.

From “Come Here To Me” 
Sordid Details would change their name to the New Versions and added Regine Moylett, (Regine is the sister of Boomtown Rats keyboard player “Johnny Fingers”). Regine also runs a “Punk” clothing store (No Romance) in the Dandelion Market with her sister Susan.
Photo supplied by Patrick Brocklebank, the photo was first published in the “In Dublin” magazine.