Hothouse Flowers

The Lakes of Pontchartrain is a folk ballad.

It's been covered by the likes of Planxty, Bob Dylan, the Hothouse Flowers, and even Celtic Woman, just to name a few.

Do you remember it went, Lake Pontchartrain, she was the voodoo of New Orleans.

No, bud, I don't.

You can ring Sean, who's producing the program today, zero eight one eight one oh three one oh three, or you can text or WhatsApp to zero eight six two one oh three one oh three.

Music from The Hothouse Flowers on C one oh three, and <「Don't Go」 playing and Don't Go.

What a kind of appropriate song, 'cause Margaret's just called to say, "Will we please wish the Cork hurler, Seamus Harnedy, all the very best in his retirement?" Margaret said, uh, Seamus was always a fantastic ambassador for Cork Sports.

Indeed, he was, and it was, uh, announced at the weekend.

When I was fir- first starting out, I had this kind of animalistic level of ambition, like, to the point that it, it was actually dangerous for myself, you know? It was like, [laughs] you know, if, if it's not, like, being the biggest artist on the planet, then I failed, and that's, like, that's such a crazy thing to think, you know? So, so for me now- From Glenn's influence and I'm kinda just like...

And Liam and Wayne Lead has been very helpful for me as well, um, from Hot House Flowers.

And, um, I'm actually going out on tour with them next, you know, which I'm very excited about for the UK.

But the...

Like, uh, like, what's my limit? [laughs]

[laughs] Well, uh, yeah, so The, The Hip and Midnight Oil were co-headlining, uh, Hothouse Flowers, Crash Test Dummies-

Yeah

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Jody Stevens was born in 1952, famous for being a drummer for the power pop band Big Star.

Leo Barnes was born in 1955, touring and studio saxophonist for the group Hot House Flowers.

Barbara McDonald was born in 1957, normally performing under the name Barbara Kay.

She was the co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist for the 1980s alternative band Timbuk3, famous for their hit, The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades.

Yeah.

And I got him over and got him managed by, um, Chris O'Donnell, who was ma- an Irish guy who was managing, um, an Irish band, the Rock House, Hothouse Flowers.

No, I mean, I've introduced people, helped people, got DJs jobs.

I mean, right now you could do a shout-out.

And they're big when we get them.

And I remember they were really pushing Hothouse Flowers on us, and then they finally [laughs] did it.

And they, they disappeared later that night I think.

I, yes, yes.

It was all very coincidental.

When I was doing a PhD at Cambridge University, and I knew a guy called Andy White who had a recording deal, and he was on London for a bit, and he'd... supported an act called Hot House Flowers, who'd been on a tour that wasn't terribly successful in England.

And I did a show with him in London.

And his agent said, do you want to do another tour with Hot House Flowers? And he said no, because he'd already done one.

And his trajectory was heading another way.

And the guy said, would you like to do it? Because I'd opened for him.

He must have liked me.

And so I said, sure.

Okay.

I'll tell you who was on that night and I'm going to lead up to it, right? So Deacon Blue, Van Morrison, the Hothouse Flowers, No Sweat, Big Country and Meatloaf.

Of

course.