Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I wehe a MacSweeney rāua ko Randell i te tau 1979. I whakaaweahia e te punk, ka tiimata a MacSweeney ki te mahi i runga i te raupapa "State of the Nation" Bulletins, tae atu ki te "Colonel B", "Jury Vet", "Liz Hard", me te "Wild Knitting". Ka noho wehewehe tonu ēnei mahi, he maha tonu ngā mahi nanakia, he kino hoki. Ki a Peter Riley, ko rātau "te aitua matua i roto i te mahi a Barry". Ko ētahi atu kaiwhakawā, tae atu ki a John Wilkinson, Marianne Morris, William Rowe, me Luke Roberts, i tohe mō te hiranga tōrangapū o tēnei tuhinga, hei whakaeke ki te kāwanatanga Conservative o Margaret Thatcher me te whakautu ki te ABC Trial me ngā momo o te tutu kāwanatanga pērā i te Pakanga Falklands me te raruraru. I marena a MacSweeney mo te wa tuarua i te 1983, engari i wehe wawe i muri mai. I neke ia ki Bradford i te tau 1983, ā, i noho hei kairipoata i te
He ahi i te taiwhanga o Bradford City i te tau 1985.