About us
Karen Dervan

Viola
Denice Doyle
Violin
Catherine Humphreys

Violin
Grace MacCarthy

Cello
There’s a lot about the 1980s that’s best forgotten. But not the music. That was the highlight of the decade. It was a golden age of pop music made by iconic artists, an age when we still listened to our favourite songs on tape.
The brainchild of Irish violist, arranger and producer, Karen Dervan, Retrospect is a string quartet, backed by drums and bass, that plays all of the best loved pop songs of the 1980s. Think of us as an 80s cover band. Without the leg warmers or perms