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Acharya, Kiran (7 February 2019). " Troublegum At 25: An Oral History Of The Therapy? Classic". Kerrang! . Retrieved 15 July 2022.

If you go to a private school you wear a blazer and a hat, like Harry Potter. I live in Cambridge. People play f**king Quidditch in Cambridge. It doesn’t exist. There’s this ridiculousness.” Michael: I didn't know it either. I just thought it was just a cool line. Then obviously I heard it later, and it was something I'd obviously heard before, but it hadn't really sunk in. The Bowie version had been around forever, but I hadn’t consciously heard it, if you know what I mean. The Irish are very good building myths. But the thing about the English is that they start building myths around things that don’t exist,” Cairns says.Their words were: ‘Strike while the iron’s hot,’” says Andy. “The last show was on something like December 23, and the day after Boxing Day we were in a studio in Lincolnshire with no songs, trying to work on the follow-up. We were exhausted.” There was Good Vibrations, the record label as well. I started going up to the Good Vibrations shop in Victoria Street in Belfast every Saturday afternoon and spending my money on punk records. And they got quite a lot of local stuff. And what was good about punk was it was a fully inclusive, so any sectarianism, any religious or political debate, didn't really matter. When I was too young to go to gigs, I could go to youth club gigs, where local punk bands would put on the gig themselves. So that was what I liked about it. And that's how I got to know other musicians. And I got to know friends of mine from the other side of the political divide that, had it not been for punk, I would never have met.”

The album’s release and initial impact presaged another year of intense touring, including appearances at UK metal mecca Donington, and Irish alternative festival Sunstroke. While it all represented a moment for the band’s music, it placed huge pressure on the people behind it. Andy: Body OD was an early and very rough version of the song, and with Stop It You're Killing Me, I had written the verse and chorus on an acoustic guitar. It was very similar in terms of the chord progression. Again, we decided, 'Well, we could actually make this a lot tougher.'

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Troublegum came out a few weeks later. It busted into the Top 5, its themes connecting with people irrespective of the subculture they belonged to. “It didn’t matter whether they were metallers, goths, punks or people in baseball caps and Reeboks,” says Andy. “When you’re young, you’re this mess of emotion. And Turman, Katherine (17 April 1994). "Therapy? 'Troublegum,' A&M". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 13 June 2020.

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