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The festival opens with Good Vibrations, the story of Terri Hooley, the music producer who discovered the Undertones and who championed the rise of punk music during a very dark and violent time in Northern Ireland's history.
There is no empirical evidence to prove a link between violent lyrics and images and real violence on the streets, but many people in the music industry have accepted they need to do more to address the issue.