Breadboy: Teenage Kicks and Tatey Bread - What Paperboy Did Next

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My predecessor in the position had been sixteen years old and had resigned to do A levels so he could get a good job in the bank and move to Bangor. British Music Youth Theatre is on the look-out for someone to play the lead role as well as other parts and Macaulay says he hopes a raw talent from the area he grew up in makes use of the golden opportunity. He was raised at the top of the Shankill Road in West Belfast at the start of thirty-five years of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, an experience that has shaped his life.

We’d love to see young people who can sing, dance and act and the roles will be cast depending on their strengths. The breadmen in those other old-fashioned bread vans had to dismount and walk around to the rear of their vans to access the loaves using a long wooden pole to withdraw drawers full of bread onto the street. I knew Leslie was a master breadman who took no nonsense, so I committed myself wholeheartedly to learning my new trade and continuing my professional development. Constructed from power-coated metal, with chrome handle and feet to give an accent, the lid and base overlap securely ensuring hygienic storage and the hinged lid lifts easily. on my first Saturday, I nodded knowingly, but inside I was thinking, ‘How am I going to get up at six o’clock every Saturday morning?

Yer man’s an awful good big crater,’ explained my mother, ‘Sure he’s in the Black as well as the Orange. Breadboy is set in Belfast against the backdrop of the Troubles but looks towards a brighter future for teenagers. In the summer of 2022 the same team produced a musical adaptation of the sequel, Breadboy, once again to sell out audiences in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.

The narrative style is easy and sharp, with a colourful, humorous edge that keeps things lively and engaging.But after a very short time the repetition of the tune began to irritate me as much as Boney M singing ‘Ma Baker’ every half hour on Radio Luxembourg. There's all of the humorous and cringeworthy moments that many of us had whilst growing up along with many cultural and musical memories that many of us experienced during a decade that defined many of us at that time. So we didn’t play it so much around the Twelfth of July because there were usually a lot of hangovers about then and the tune sounded nothing like ‘The Sash’ anyway.