CULT HEROES
JANGLE POP SAGE MARK MULCAHY REDISCOVERS WHAT WAS LOST
Promised you a miracle: Mark Mulcahy with late-’80s Miracle Legion (from left) Ray Neal, Mulcahy, Steve West and Jeff Wiederschall.
“HE CHANGED the way I thought about songs and singing,” Thom Yorke remarked of Mark Mulcahy, whilst Nick Hornby devoted a chapter to the man from Connecticut in his 2002 book 31 Songs. But of all those to endorse this compelling, golden-throated stor yteller, the most unexpected must be BBC TV’s politics weekly The Andrew Marr Show, who flew over the re-for med Mulcahy-fronted Miracle Legion in 2016.
“They cancelled our appearance because of Brexit!” Mulcahy guffaws. “But they said they’d still film us, and broadcast it later – but there we were, having breakfast with Boris Johnson… a total nutso.”