Time was, people would stop Feargal Sharkey in the street to talk about the song Teenage Kicks. These days, he says, “it’s always about shite in rivers”.
The former Undertones singer, now the vocal frontman for the campaign to highlight the scandal of sewage in Britain’s inland and coastal waters, does not particularly welcome the change. “I’m really happy to get back to talking about gigs and records again as soon as anybody else is ready,” he says. But neither is he about to give up his cause. Particularly now he is winning.
He has known for a couple of years that he has discovered that rare beast: an issue that can unite the whole