Trivia / Microdisney

• Creator Backlash: The former members of the band will often say that Microdisney was the past and that they were young and naive then, and that they've gone onto better things. Fans tend to disagree.
  • Perhaps due to renewed interest in the band, Cathal and Sean seem to have become warmer about those times in recent years.
  • And then in 2018, the band got back together for a series of gigs. Sometimes miracles do happen...
• Creator Breakdown: The album Everybody Is Fantastic for despair, the song "464" for anger. We Hate You South African Bastards for a combination of the two.
• Disney Owns This Trope: Actually averted, despite their name including the trope namer; it's worth noting that Microdisney was formed in 1980, back when Disney was still known as "Walt Disney Productions", and their rise to major film studio status wouldn't happen until the late '80s. Cathal Couglan lampshaded this trope in an interview and insisted that it was nothing more than a "verbal distortion''.
• Executive Meddling: The band cite this as a reason for breaking up after their last album, 39 Minutes. The label were after a hit and the album has the hallmarks of 80s production.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The band's discography is out of print on CD with the exception of a couple of Best Of compilations. There are also few B Sides that haven't appeared on CD, such as fan favourites Harmony Time and Money For The Trams. There are also many songs from radio sessions that didn't appear on their Peel Sessions CD and so are circulated by fans who originally taped them.
• Missing Episode: Despite releasing several demo tapes in 1980 and 1981, as well as recording a radio session at that time, only three songs from this period have turned up (the session tracks "Mitchelstown", "Leper" and "Cack Hand"), which were recorded by a fan at the the time of their broadcast.
• Money, Dear Boy: This was the main reason the band signed to Virgin, as Rough Trade did not pay them enough to cover the numerous bills they had to pay. Whilst the band did get better distribution on Virgin, their later material suffered from Executive Meddling, largely with lyrics.
• Out of Order: Whilst it mostly collects their music in chronological order, Daunt Square To Elsewhere places the tracks that first appeared on "We Hate You South African Bastards" after those that appeared on "Everybody Is Fantastic". All the tracks on "Bastards" were recorded before "Everybody Is Fantastic", but only four of them were released at the time. As a result, the remaining tracks have a later copyright date, thus explaining why they are Out of Order.
• What Could Have Been: Whilst the band's musical directions were totally at odds when they broke up in the late 80s (Cathal's anger and Sean's melody taken to their logical extreme in their solo work), they have both reached a creative and melodic point where they are on a similar page musically. However it seemed unlikely that they would work together again, until Microdisney reunited for a brief series of gigs in 2018. Subsequently, Sean was a guest on Cathal's 2020 solo album Song of Co-Aklan and it can be assumed that they have buried the hatchet.
  • The band played the original song "King Of Free Speech" on several gigs on their last tour, leading people to believe it would be recorded later on. Ultimately, this never happened.

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