‘Comfort Kills’ were Morgan Brannigan, guitar /vocals, Walky Manley on drums and Greag Mac A’tSaoir on bass.

Greag recalls the band’s debut gig “At our first gig, I hadn’t yet got a bass, so I played a guitar, but stuck to the low strings. When we started, we used old tape recorders for amps. My father was a school caretaker and we acquired them when the school was closing down it’s language lab”. Morgan Brannigan “Comfort Kills started out covering the likes of The Clash, The Stranglers and Gang of Four, but also did our own songs such as “React (Live in a van - if that’s what you wanna do)”, “Committee of Public Safety” ‘No. 7’ and ‘No. 21’ (songs were being written that quick, there was no time for titles!)”.

Band influences were mainly post-punk artists such as Wire, Cabaret Voltaire, Pere Ubu, Public Image Limited etc. Live, the band used a projector with pictures of the Pope superimposed onto strippers, with a roller blind for a screen. Walky left to work as a chef in Jersey and although the band limped on for a while under the name The Plague, it didn’t last very long.

Greag and Morgan formed another band in the mid 1990’s called The Invisible Mass, which was more industrial. Greag again “We were once asked to stop playing at a festival because ‘the children can’t hear themselves playing five a side!’. That kind of sums up our involvement in the pop business”.

Today Morgan plays with Paul Tohill in ‘Feed The Enemy’.

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