![]() ![]() ![]() Jimmy has already put an ad in the paper and makes the band kick in for the cost. At a band meeting where he introduces Deco to Outspan and Derek, Jimmy tells them they will need to recruit more players for his vision: drums, saxophone, trumpet, keyboards. Jimmy recruits a local man Declan Cuffe, whom everyone calls Deco, to be the singer in the band. His second is to rename the group The Commitments because all the great band names begin with “the.” When formally asked to be their manager, Jimmy agrees. Jimmy believes they should be playing what he considers “soul” music. He advises them to forget about the “art school” songs they’ve been trying to cover and to focus on the basics – sex and politics. Jimmy is open to taking on the challenge of making them a band. They don’t know much about music and are already arguing over the musical direction for the band Outspan and Derek despise Ray’s taste. A third member, Ray, is in the bathroom when this decision is made and isn’t immediately informed. Outspan and Derek ask local audiophile Jimmy Rabbitte to be the manager of their band, And And And. ![]() Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments (1987) is told mainly through exchanges of dialogue as the novel tracks the formation, slight rise, and fall of a band in 1980s Dublin attempting to bring soul music to Ireland. ![]()
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