Wayne Kramer, former member of Detroit proto-punk band MC5, joined Tom Dunne on Thursday evening, ahead of his appearance at Drogheda Arts Festival this weekend.

"We're going to talk about some of the historical touchstones of my time in the MC5. My life after the MC5 got very interesting. It went down and has come back to a place where I feel reconnected to the world around me and be able to talk about the work I do nowadays with the great British activist and troubadour Billy Bragg and my wife Margaret Kramer," he says.

The musician has set up an organisation called Jail Guitar Doors which strives to provide prisoners with instruments which can help them in their rehabilitation.

But how did MC5 become such an influential behemoth?

"There was an unspoken agreement among my generation, coming up in the '60s, that the way the older generation was running things was a mess. The hypocrisy was unbearable. The Church or political leaders would say one thing and then do the opposite. We decided...we were different from them and maybe we had some better ideas," he says.

Grit Noise and Revolution: An Evening with Wayne Kramer (MC5 and Other Tales), hosted by Tony Clayton Lea, takes place this Saturday at the Droichead Arts Centre.