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Hátalar

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   Kafli 1: 40 years, maybe it's 41 at this stage. 299s · Speaker 1

   40 years, maybe it's 41 at this stage. Yeah, yeah. I'd seen on the website there was different gigs, you know, there was like an anniversary tour, and I saw in Dublin you're doing a night celebrating the Mother album as well, so I thought, …

2. 5:00

   Kafli 2: invite us to go along and I think we had to travel somewhere so we couldn't sort of fit it in but I would have loved to have been at that they've always been great extending the hand of friendship you know yeah it's always been great but anyway yeah so just you know but the other thing I wanted to say was that real world came And Paul Simon came with Graceland. 300s · Speaker 2

   invite us to go along and I think we had to travel somewhere so we couldn't sort of fit it in but I would have loved to have been at that they've always been great extending the hand of friendship you know yeah it's always been great but an…

3. 10:00

   Kafli 3: an album where I found an authentic voice in how I delivered a song. 123s · Speaker 1

   an album where I found an authentic voice in how I delivered a song. And I felt like there was a few questions and a few answers that came in the songs that I was very, very happy with. And there were other songs that didn't make that album…

4. 12:03

   Kafli 4: Yeah. There's no predictability to it. 301s · Speaker 2

   Yeah. There's no predictability to it. I was going to ask you that because I thought, a bit like Van Morrison, you seem to exist outside the industry. Van seems now to write and record quite regularly but put them out on his own label and h…

5. 17:04

   Kafli 5: But, you know, I'll always remember that he, that we actually, well, I think it was Songs from the Rain. 79s · Speaker 1

   But, you know, I'll always remember that he, that we actually, well, I think it was Songs from the Rain. And we booked a day in the studio in a rehearsal space. Yeah. But we just ended up sitting, I think, in a corridor listening to the dem…

6. 18:24

   Kafli 6: great record, yeah. 300s · Speaker 2

   great record, yeah. And that really, you know, and he said, challenge, I need a challenge, you know, challenge, challenge. So we talked about maybe doing like a bilingual type of project, you know, see how he'd handled the Irish language. Y…

7. 23:25

   Kafli 7: much at all. 300s · Speaker 1

   much at all. But it has quite an energy, quite an anger, quite a crescendo. Yeah. Yeah, punk was like, you know, you talk to so many people and you can see that they... they're still guided by that punk ethos, which is, let's make something…

8. 28:26

   Kafli 8: we'll have a bit of fun. 301s · Speaker 2

   we'll have a bit of fun. Yeah. And I thought, I like this guy. Yeah. And surely he was fun. Yeah. He enjoyed, when he came into our world, he came in. He came into the rehearsal, he went to the Pope later. His wife, Siobhan, came and joined…

9. 33:27

   Kafli 9: Who the fuck is this? 300s · Speaker 1

   Who the fuck is this? This is magic. And I think, especially if this is a sea pagan place, like, Carl Wallinger is a big part to play in the architecture of those songs. And then... And then Mike is kind of like the flaming soul within, you…

10. 38:28

    Kafli 10: I mean, the way it sounds, and it's a great thing, but if you look at the sort of community around Irish music, you know, we're talking about U2 there, Van, Mike Scott, The Water Boys, it seems to me very supportive. 60s · Speaker 2

    I mean, the way it sounds, and it's a great thing, but if you look at the sort of community around Irish music, you know, we're talking about U2 there, Van, Mike Scott, The Water Boys, it seems to me very supportive. I mean, I know Mike Sco…

11. 39:28

    Kafli 11: no you know and and i mean well you see again i think that goes back to the roots music that that's always present underneath all of these rock bands underneath all of these stars the tunes keep playing it's like a movie meanwhile meanwhile the tune keep the walls keeps playing you know and yeah i i certainly certainly personally it was always about respecting what others were doing and being curious about what others were doing and being supportive in any way and then I think actually the frames and Glenn Hansard came and that whole generation took that It was like every band in Dublin just became one big band at that stage. 304s · Speaker 1

    no you know and and i mean well you see again i think that goes back to the roots music that that's always present underneath all of these rock bands underneath all of these stars the tunes keep playing it's like a movie meanwhile meanwhile…

12. 44:32

    Kafli 12: Sharon. Sharon Shannon put together a band to sing Shane songs because she was very close to Shane. 302s · Speaker 1

    Sharon. Sharon Shannon put together a band to sing Shane songs because she was very close to Shane. Yes. And I was given Summer in Siam and Lullaby of London. Lovely, yeah. And I didn't know, until then, I didn't know Lullaby of London. and…

13. 49:35

    Kafli 13: castle not you know not edinburgh but any castle is kind of designed to put one people above another people and I'm fundamentally going that's a flow that needs ironing out and I think artists in general you know know that, that we, this castle business, it's just, it's too much. 301s · Speaker 1

    castle not you know not edinburgh but any castle is kind of designed to put one people above another people and I'm fundamentally going that's a flow that needs ironing out and I think artists in general you know know that, that we, this ca…

14. 54:37

    Kafli 14: Yeah. You know? 303s · Speaker 1

    Yeah. You know? That's great. Oh, it was great. I mean, we were talking earlier. I won't keep you too much longer, Liam. Are you OK for another five minutes or so? Yeah. I was going to ask you about what it's like, because we said earlier i…

15. 59:48

    Kafli 15: Division, what's going on in America and parts of Europe, you know, the gigs really do bring us together and things like division over whatever reason, they fall away. 273s · Speaker 1

    Division, what's going on in America and parts of Europe, you know, the gigs really do bring us together and things like division over whatever reason, they fall away. I always argued that even at school with teachers, I said, you know, mus…