Things Can Only Get Better is back on the political playlist after drowning out Rishi Sunak’s election announcement. Here, the NI man behind chart-topping hits for D:Ream talks about starting life in a mother and baby home, the ‘toxic’ record industry and rekindling his love of music Pete Cunnah in his Donegal studio (Picture by Martin McKeown) A short drive across the Derry-Donegal border rests beautiful coastline at the edge of Europe. In these idyllic surroundings one of Derry’s best-known popstars opens the door to his recording studio overlooking Lisfannon beach.
It is a place which captured the heart of Pete Cunnah, enticing him back to the north west of Ireland after 30 years in London. The D:Ream frontman learned to swim on that very beach in the hot summer of 1976..