Some guests on Desert Island Discs are more interesting than others, and some are not what you would expect at all - Robert Plant, for example.
Congratulations to Stereo Stories writer Rijn Collins on the publication, today, of her debut novel, Fed to Red Birds.
I was in my new outfit and if truth be told I looked a bit like Thurston Howell III from Gilligan’s Island. I think most of the girls there thought so too.
Once Upon A Time there was a band. A band that was Made In Dublin. And there was a girl. Who wasn’t Made In Dublin. But was formed there. In a way. In the 1980s and the 1990s. In the parts of Ballymun that passed themselves off as Glasnevin.
A big thank you to Irish radio station Newstalk, which quoted a Stereo Story on Tuesday 21 February.
So, had I ever heard of CSN, he asked? (Wait, what!? Was that a news channel? A law firm?) No, I had not.
You don’t have to agree on everything, you don’t have to like the same bands, or like the same bands as much, but there is a bond, a thread.
Whether it be websites or concerts, radio or books or podcasts, there is no shortage of personal stories about the songs that shape our lives.
They rode a flying carpet together and travelled with birds.
My muso son Dan texted me. He said that a friend of a friend of a friend is a daughter of a TISM band member.