Before the Radiators from Space there was Greta Garbage and The Trash Cans.
Greta Garbage and The Trash Cans formed circa 1975 with band members Pete Holidai, Steve Averill and Billy Morley. TV GAGA presenter Flo McSweeney quips,
This band never performed in public and with a name like that you can see why.
Three years after forming, some of the band members went on to form the Irish punk rock band Radiators from Space (also known as The Radiators) with Philip Chevron.
A decade on, Greta Garbage and the Trash Cans have reformed especially for TV GAGA They have filmed a music video for their track ‘The Girl With The Luminous Brain’ directed by Declan Lowney.
The video is shot in RTÉ’s boiler room in Donnybrook and on location at the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) Poolbeg Power Station, with the oil tanks and the chimney stacks in the background.
TV GAGA presenter Liam Mackey declares Greta Garbage and the Trash Cans a legendary band, but,
Personally, I don't think they’re quite as tuneful as the wonderful Death and Gore Suicide Pact.
This episode of TV GAGA was broadcast on 28 June 1985. The presenters are Flo McSweeney and Liam Mackey.
TV GAGA ran for two series in 1985 and 1986. Aimed at an audience aged 18 to 30 each programme was presented with a live studio audience and contained a mixture of film reports, live music and studio discussion.
