Sourcing recordings, photos and memorabilia for a long overdue Gags website turned into something of an architectural dig, one where rich pickings were to be found.

‘We didn’t really think about it at the time, but Gags made a mark,’ says Gore. ‘You could say we were popular, but never fashionable.’

‘All we ever wanted to do was to play live,’ adds McLaughlin. ‘And because we had another outlet in The Removal Men we just got on with that instead. Nobody can say we didn’t put a shift in on Gags – most bands don’t last twenty months, never mind twenty years.’

McLaughlin and Gore have now been playing together for approaching half a century in an unbreakable musical bond.

The final word is left to John Kelly. ‘Could we, should we, have been bigger?’ he muses. ‘We never had a masterplan and were known for doing our own thing – most often contrary to the advice we received. Maybe we should have been called The Men Who Wouldn’t Be Told.’